Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one read more

Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?

There shall never be one lost good! What was shall live as
before;
The evil is null, is read more

There shall never be one lost good! What was shall live as
before;
The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound;
What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more;
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.

Chastity - you can carry it too far

Chastity - you can carry it too far

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons

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.

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to
men.
[Lat., Homines read more

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to
men.
[Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem
hominibus dando.]