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Be good and you will be lonesome.
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend read more
The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
Virtue is not knowing but doing
Virtue is not knowing but doing
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect
others to be vicious.
[Lat., Nam read more
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect
others to be vicious.
[Lat., Nam ut quisque est vir optimus, ita difficillime esse
alios improbos suspicatur.]
