"Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar."
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"Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue."
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"Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune."
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"Obedience is a virtue of so excellent a nature, that Our Lord was pleased to mark its observance upon the whole course of His life; thus He often says, He did not come to do His Own will, but that of His Heavenly Father."
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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
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"Pride is both a virtue and a vice."
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"To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue)."
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"Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no."
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"The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue."
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"Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company."
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"We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue."
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"Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality."
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"Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?"
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"Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself."
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"The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire."
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"The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors."
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"It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life."
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"To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue."
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"The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage."
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"Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune."
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