The rich man ... is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
The rich man ... is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.
What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
We cannot well do without our sins they are the highway of our virtue.
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.
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