“I may be no better than other people, but at least I am different”
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“I may be no better than other people, but at least I am different”
“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well”
“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living”
“If you consider what are called the virtues of mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation”
“When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion”
“Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves”
“Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected”
“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”
“Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others”
“The almighty Lord set two targets for me: the abolishment of slavery and the reformation of manners”
“I love you not only for what you are, But for what I am when I'm with you. ”
“It is better to lose your time than to lose your character”
“Few man have virtue to withstand the highest bidder”
“The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties”
“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy”
“I can resist everything except temptation”
“Few people know how to be old”
“Patience is a virtue”
“Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless ”
“Be to her virtues very kind, be to her faults a little blind. ”