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If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.