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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Chastity - you can carry it too far
Chastity - you can carry it too far
The only amarantine flower on earth
Is virtue.
The only amarantine flower on earth
Is virtue.
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!
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.]
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
