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"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."
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"That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!"
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"Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk."
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"What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?"
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"Shunning evil is wisdom, loving God is the highest wisdom."
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"To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect."
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"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."
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"Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."
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"Assume a virtue if you have it not."
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"Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc."
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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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"Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live."
Values
"You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve."
Afterlife
"Wisdom is knowing you know nothing."
Knowledge
"Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence."
Fear
"How many things can I do without?"
Minimalism
"Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively."
Excellence
"Be true to thine own self."
Self
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
Education
"I know one thing, that I know nothing."
Wisdom
"Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind."
Beauty
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