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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
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".
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have
neighbors.
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have
neighbors.
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!
The only amarantine flower on earth
Is virtue.
The only amarantine flower on earth
Is virtue.
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
