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The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that...more

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If there is any societyamong robbers and murderers, they must at least. . . .abstainfrom robbing and murdering one another. So beneficenceis less esse...more

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Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.

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Let us suppose that the great empire of China, with all its myriads of inhabitants, was suddenly swallowed up by an earthquake, and let us consider ho...more