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Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.
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The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!
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But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.
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Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be expected to produce uniformity of effect.
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It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
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Born:
July 9, 1764
Died:
February 7, 1823
(aged 58)
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