What the statesman is most ...

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Change in all things is sweet.
Well begun is half done.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.