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Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
Honor is the reward of virtue.
[Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.]
Honor is the reward of virtue.
[Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.]
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
