If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
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.
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
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