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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary

Thomas Paine

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It is the peculiar boast of our country, that her happiness is alone dependent on the collective wisdom and virtue of her citizens, and rests not on the exertions of any individual

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If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

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Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

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The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.

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One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.

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Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

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The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

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