"Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees."
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"Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other."
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"I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation."
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"We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious."
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"Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path."
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"Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue."
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"Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected."
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"There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline."
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"Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again."
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"The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road."
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"In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness."
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"Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them."
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"Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues."
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"Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament."
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"What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible."
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"Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune."
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"Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera."
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"Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues."
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"A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other."
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"I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded."
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