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If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?

If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?

Jean de la Bruyere
Usual, Littles, Virtue
"The "Characters" of Jean de la Bruyère". "Of Personal Merit," №20. Book by Jean de La Bruyère. Translated by Henri Van Laun, 1885.

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

Jean de la Bruyere
Faults, Virtue, Easier

No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.

Jean de la Bruyere
Vices, Doe, Virtue
"Les Characters". Book by Jean de La Bruyère. 'Of the Affections,' #72, 1688.

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