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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

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.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

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.