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Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.
All great virtues become great men.
[Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]
All great virtues become great men.
[Fr., Toutes grandes vertus conviennent aux grands hommes.]
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them
The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them
