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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?
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing.
[Lat., Vile latens virtus.]
Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing.
[Lat., Vile latens virtus.]
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.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and
moderation and reason.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and
moderation and reason.
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.]
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.]
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Be good and you will be lonesome.
