I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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The word is half his that speaks, And half his that hears it.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
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