Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

The merely just can generally bear great virtues as little as great vices.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

I cannot," said he, "expect everyone to have my virtues. It's good enough to meet with my vices...

It's Shakespeare, to have a single family in which human flaws and virtues are on such vivid display—and the constant struggle between those vices and those virtues to try to do good and fulfill one's duty.