"The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old."
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"Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise."
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"Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues."
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"In the winter, warmth stands for all virtue."
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"If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes."
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"Virtue has never been as respectable as money."
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"We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it."
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"I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them."
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"Virtue is the truest nobility."
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"Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one."
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"If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue."
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"Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection."
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"Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy."
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"Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask."
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"We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates."
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"There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death."
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"Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue."
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"Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects."
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"Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me"
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"Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable."
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