It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
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