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To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, read more
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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?
Chastity - you can carry it too far
Chastity - you can carry it too far
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Be good and you will be lonesome.
It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be
anxious to crush the read more
It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be
anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.
[Lat., Est haec saeculi labes quaedam et macula virtuti invidere,
velle ipsum florem dignitatis infringere.]
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
