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Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.