Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
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The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune.
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Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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