Quotes 181 till 200 of 369.
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
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Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
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Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
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Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
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Repentance is the virtue of weak minds.
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Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
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She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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