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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?

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

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

The ideal of the man of virtue is not the perfect man; it is the man who is striving to be better.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.