"To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy."
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"Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer."
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"Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper."
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"Who sows virtue ought to reap honour."
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"In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other."
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"Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave."
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"Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it."
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"Be virtuous and you will be eccentric."
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"Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power."
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"Let frugality and industry be our virtues."
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"Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?"
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"I have pushed virtue to outright brutality."
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"Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not."
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"Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues."
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"Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence.""
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"It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous."
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"Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue."
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"A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues."
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"Beauty is the flower of virtue."
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"I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom."
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