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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one’s reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

Pride, envy, avarice – these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

There is no sin except stupidity.