"Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised."
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"Happiness is the reward of virtue."
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"Our patience will achieve more than our force."
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"To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature."
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"Strive always to excel in virtue and truth."
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"Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves."
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"Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible."
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"Virtue is health, vice is sickness."
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"Meditate upon my counsels; love them; follow them; To the divine virtues will they know how to lead thee. I swear it by the One who in our hearts engraved The sacred Tetrad , symbol immense and pure, Source of Nature and model of the Gods."
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"Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue."
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"Always be quite simple and sincere and ask God to grant me those two virtues."
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"Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination."
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"No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness ."
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"Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money."
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"I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores."
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"To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy."
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"Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it."
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"One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune."
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"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."
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"A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy."
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