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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
Assume a virtue if you have it not.
Assume a virtue if you have it not.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons
Chastity - you can carry it too far
Chastity - you can carry it too far
Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.
Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.
What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in
the heart.
What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in
the heart.
Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.
Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.
Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
