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Virtue is everywhere the same, because it comes from God, while everything else is of men.
Virtue is everywhere the same, because it comes from God, while everything else is of men.
Approximate author period: c. 1736 AD · early modern
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- Francis M. Voltaire
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- Approximate author period: c. 1736 AD · early modern
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- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)
Virtue · anthology attribution: Voltaire
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