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Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
Virtue can only flourish among equals.
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born.
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
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