"Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue."
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"I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm."
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"When the men of antiquity realized their wishes, benefits were conferred by them on the people. If they did not realize their wishes, they cultivated their personal character, and became illustrious in the world. If poor, they attended to their own virtue in solitude; if advanced to dignity, they made the whole empire virtuous as well."
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"Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue."
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"Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue."
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"Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground."
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"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."
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"Disobedience was man's Original Virtue."
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"Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues."
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"True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods."
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"I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror."
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"Elegance is inferior to virtue."
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"It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune."
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"Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money."
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"If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself, since I am a human being too."
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"A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue."
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"In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless."
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"Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves."
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"Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor."
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"Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy."
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