"Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them."
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"Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues."
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"O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade."
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"Virtue proceeds through effort."
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"To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote."
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"Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue."
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"Virtues, of ... Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty."
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"Virtues, of ... Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve."
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"The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other."
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"The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue."
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"The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue."
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"One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue."
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"If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?"
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"I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty."
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"If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?"
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"Even if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning from me."
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"Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage."
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"Obstinacy alone is not a virtue."
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"In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue."
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"When I hear of people who weary of each other, I believe it is because they have sought virtues in themselves alone, attractions of physical beauty. Have they based their love on each other's thoughts? Who can weary of thoughts which change every day?"
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