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We, people, complain about ourselves in vain, we complain about fate in vain! We are miserable and doomed to a miserable existence. And does it matter whether our own guilt, influence from above or chance, vice or virtue, wisdom or madness will cast us into the abyss of destruction.

... love is the alpha and omega of virtues ...

I have more and more virtues, but I am less and less virtuous.

centuries must be ready not only to be honest, but also to eat acorns. The best virtues need help from the worst vices, which, fortunately, are innate.

Science, like virtue, is a reward to itself.

Love is not a feeling, it is a virtue. This is the amount of good that we do, regardless of the return. When you do it just like that. Here is a granny in the subway, give her a seat. It is not necessary to burn with a feeling of it, it is necessary to do, to do.

There is no vice that does not disguise itself as some kind of virtue or resort to its help.

The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

Oh, of course, man has always and at all times idolized materialism and was inclined to see and understand freedom only in providing himself with money accumulated with all his might and stored by all means. But never have these aspirations been raised so frankly and so instructively to the highest principle as in our nineteenth century. “Everyone for himself and only for himself and all communication between people is unique for himself” - this is the moral principle of most of today's people, and not even bad people, but, on the contrary, working people who do not kill, do not steal. And ruthlessness towards the lower masses, and the fall of brotherhood, and the exploitation of the rich by the poor - oh, of course, all this was both before and always, but - but it was not raised to the level of the highest truth and science, but it was condemned by Christianity, and now, on the contrary , is elevated to virtue.

- That's the thing, Mom. I don't know anything.
- You know when it's wiser to keep quiet. This is the greatest virtue.

- I don't know anything!
- You know when to remain silent - this is the most important virtue.

For nothing does a person pay so dearly as for his virtues.

With the help of traditional morality, encouraging the herd instinct, the mass oppresses the Personality, encroaches on its freedom. Obedience turns out to be the highest virtue, disobedience is evil.

Hurry up, return the virtue that has flown away from it to the earth - yes, return it for love and for life: and may virtue be the meaning of the earth, its human meaning!