Jean Paul Quotes About Virtue
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We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
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Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.
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If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.
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Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from their foundations, turned the stream of history from its old channel, and still continues to rule and guide the ages
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