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• To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be, not a virtue, but the groundwork of a virtue.
  -- Johnso...
• Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us, even in our pains. -- Colto
• How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which.
  .. 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence" is that 75% of [American] students have learned to "critique tactfully?...
• Do not speak of what men deserve. For we each of us deserve everything
  every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead Kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger....
• It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity
  and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color....
• Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
  Epicuru...