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"The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently."

"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."

"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."

"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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"Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while."

"Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being."

"We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done."

"Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness."

"Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect."

"When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness."
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