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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.

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

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.

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

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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.