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Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property read more
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.
Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.
Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they
possess it.
[Lat., Virtute enim ipsa read more
Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they
possess it.
[Lat., Virtute enim ipsa non tam multi praediti esse, quam videri
volunt.]
