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"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself."
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"To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect."
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"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."
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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
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"Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world."
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"The good don't masquerade their goodness, they just are."
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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."
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"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."
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"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."
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"There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess."
Philosophy
"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
Man
"Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed."
Philosophy
"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
Mistake
"We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears."
Philosophy
"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
Man
"When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe."
Love
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
People
"However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention."
Wisdom
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
People
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