“It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty–while virtue gets all the credit.”
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“It requires more virtue to bear good fortune than ill.”
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“No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.”
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“Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.”
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“Nature seems at each man’s birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.”
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“However wicked men may be, they dare not profess themselves enemies to virtue; and when they wish to persecute it, they either call it false, or impute crimes to it.”
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“The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.”
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“Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.”
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“Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.”
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“Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues, and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.”
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“Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.”
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“Vices enter into the composition of virtues as poisons into the composition of certain medicines. Prudence and common sense mix them together, and make excellent use of them against the misfortunes that attend human life.”
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“Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.”
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“What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in a certain manner; and it is not always out of courage or purity that men are brave, and women chaste.”
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“There are some faults which, when dexterously managed, make a brighter show than virtue itself.”
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“There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.”
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“Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.”
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“Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunning sort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others.”
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“Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.”
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“When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them.”
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