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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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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
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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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"No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it."
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"Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue."
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"Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company."
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"It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds."
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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
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"Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold."
Virtue

"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman."
Music

"Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life."
Life

"Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth."
God

"Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!"
Happiness

"Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors."
Error

"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven."
Accident

"Friends applaud, the comedy is over."
Comedy

"Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience."
Experience

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."
Music
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