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"Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your word concerning virtue!"
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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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"Shunning evil is wisdom, loving God is the highest wisdom."
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"If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they've been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we're headed right back toward The Virtues."
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"By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries."
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"Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That's why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith."
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"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."
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"Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue."
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"Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office."
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"Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness."
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"Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue."
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"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying."
Growth
"To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities-I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not-that one endures."
Strength
"The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame."
Strength
"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."
Emotion
"We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?"
Self
"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage."
Strength
"For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child."
Family
"He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed."
Fate
"When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame."
Recognition
"Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is."
Truth
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