Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.
Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward.
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.