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A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
Virtues are not emotions. Emotions are movements of appetite, virtues dispositions of appetite towards movement. Moreover emotions ...
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the wa ...
Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentia ...
For as change is horror,
Virtue is really stubbornness
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I cannot call Riches better than the baggage of virtue. The Roman word is better, impedimenta. For as the baggage is to an army, s ...
Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, i ...
Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with v ...
Prayer is the fair and radiant daughter of all the human virtues, the arch connecting heaven and earth, the sweet companion that i ...
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
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