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"If we had lost our own chief good, other people's good would remain, and that is worth trying for."
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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."
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"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."
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"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."
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"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one."
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"One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge."
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"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."
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"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."
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"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."
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"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing."
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"It is better to be kind than to seek much knowledge."
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"The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance."
Ignorance

"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."
Character

"The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions."
Happiness

"A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."
Relationship

"Fate has carried me'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breastTo pierce another."
Power

"Consequences are unpitying."
Consequence

"More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us."
Wisdom

"Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle."
Behavior

"Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos."
Mythology

"I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best."
Fear
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