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Gratitude is a virtue which, according to the general apprehension of mankind, approaches more nearly than almost any other social virtue to justice. - [Gratitude] Sound policy is never at variance with substantial justice. - [Justice] The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason. - [Excess] To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good. - [Conduct] To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men. - [Friendship]
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