"No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue."
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"In the approach to virtue there are many steps."
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"Patience is the courage of virtue."
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"There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself."
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"Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice."
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"Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue."
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"What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange."
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"It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit."
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"Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences."
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"Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation."
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"When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue."
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"Virtue is insufficient temptation."
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"What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?"
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"A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was."
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"Love is the greatest virtue of the heart."
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"Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it."
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"The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur."
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"That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess."
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"Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing."
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"The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less."
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