Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.
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Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue?
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Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.
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The virtues are economists, but some of the vices are also...Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but i...
