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Margaret Deland

"Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation."

Margaret Deland, American Novelist
Virtue, Commonsense, Self, Spiritual
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"Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation."

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"Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear."

Rumi, Persian Poet
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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher
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"I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia."

John Green, American Author
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"The greater the wisdom, the greater the mind. The greater the courage, the greater the heart. The greater the love, the greater the soul."

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"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author
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"When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher
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"We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher
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