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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it
Virtue is insufficient temptation
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices
Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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