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1. Psychologists tell us that the vividness of our memory depends on the stress of attention. Therefore, says St. Paul, ~if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things~.
2. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
3. "Virtue---even attempted virtue---brings light; indulgence brings fog."
4. "Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again."
5. "The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice."
6. "Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases."
7. "True pleasure is the companion and associate of virtue."
8. "No virtue can be great if it is not constant." Alfonso Milagro
9. "Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation."
10. "Gratitude is the mother of all the virtues."
11. "We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful."
