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Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

God’s most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action , for bustle too, I believe.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.