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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.
Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.
So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time
So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time
Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.
Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.
The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing
The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing
That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering
pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but read more
That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering
pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and
imitation of virtue.
[Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium
impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque
virtutis.]
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.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
