"The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day conduct."

Ethics, Virtue, Conduct, Morality, Character

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"The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day conduct."

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"We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future?"

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"Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

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"Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion."

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"Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones."

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"There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus."

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"Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately."

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"Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth."

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"It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory."

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"I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."

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"Continuity in everything is unpleasant."

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"In every action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all these things."

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