"Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature"
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"Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license."
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"Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues."
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"It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others."
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"Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul."
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"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself."
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"Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment."
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"Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly."
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"All things happen by virtue of necessity."
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"I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it."
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"Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong."
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"Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are."
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"The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power."
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"If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing."
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"If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not."
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"Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend."
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"The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought."
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"To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue."
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"Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts."
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"Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?"
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