It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.
A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
Virtue is too often merely local.
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
It is dangerous for moral beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light.
If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.
I am a great friend to public amusements for they keep people from vice.
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue. . . . Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
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