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Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still
A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.
Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still
A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.
Virtue is the only true nobility.
Virtue is the only true nobility.
The virtue in most request is conformity.
The virtue in most request is conformity.
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, read more
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love read more
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong".
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
