"The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts but by his ordinary doing."

Ethics, Virtue, Power, Discipline, Action

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"The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts but by his ordinary doing."

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"It's amazing to me the number of people who will volunteer to help at church but won't lift a finger to help at home!"

Joyce Meyer, American Author

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"It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words."

Euripides, Greek Poet

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"Everything which is of use to mankind is honourable."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"It is better to be slave to righteousness than slave to sin."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"He will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do.."

Neal Shusterman, American Author

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"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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"Making money and being prosperous is a wonderful place to be, but not at the expense of your ethics, integrity, and reputation. It is simply not worth it. It nixes any chance of creating trusted working relationships."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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"Men blaspheme what they do not know."

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"Continuity in everything is unpleasant."

Life

"All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end."

Life

"Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong."

Philosophy

"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before."

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"If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?"

Philosophy

"Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."

Knowledge

"It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false."

Faith

"I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter."

Art

"Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature."

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