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

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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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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"Do not treat others as you would not like to be treated' frees one from hypocrisy. 'Treat others as you would like to be treated' enslaves one with insincerity."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Let thy true religion be to act right."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian 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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"Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful."

Stephen King, American 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."

Truth

"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."

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

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

Inspirational

"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."

Behavior

"Continuity in everything is unpleasant."

Life

"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."

Philosophy

"Finally, let them recognise that there are two kinds of people one can call reasonable; those who serve God with all their heart because they know Him, and those who seek Him with all their heart because they do not know Him."

Faith

"Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects."

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