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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Blushing is the color of virtue.
Blushing is the color of virtue.
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
 We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all 
those who have not a single read more 
 We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all 
those who have not a single virtue. 
 Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue 
is at hand.  
 Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue 
is at hand. 
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
 Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.
 [Fr., La vertu d'un coeur noble est la marque read more 
 Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.
 [Fr., La vertu d'un coeur noble est la marque certaine.] 
 The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
 Make instruments to plague us.  
 The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
 Make instruments to plague us.