"It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea."
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"Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift of what must otherwise be ravished from him by cruel necessity."
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"Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues."
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"Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled."
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"I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices."
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"...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely."
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"In justice is all virtues found in sum."
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"Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by [Moral] Virtue."
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"Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion."
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"For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg."
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"So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all."
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"The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence."
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"A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known."
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"The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God."
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"Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine."
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"People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues."
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"The Beatitudes, far from being a new set of virtues that further divide the religious haves and have nots, are words of hope and healing to those who have been marginalized."
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"There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them."
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"You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues."
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"The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue."
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