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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly
If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration - is not this the way to exalt virtue?
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort
The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue
Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul
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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."
Human, All Too Human
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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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