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Virtue

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

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In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

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Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

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I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

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Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

- Robert Cecil

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

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