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"I am not a 'wise man,' nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be equal to the best, but that I should be better than the wicked. It is enough for me if every day I reduce the number of my vices, and blame my mistakes."
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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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"I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What's bad is bad even if necessary."
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"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."
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"The value system of a country comes from the pulpit."
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"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."
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"Sorrowers tend to avoid what they are most fond of and try to give vent to their grief."
Grief
"On Epicurus; He says: "Contended poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. It is not the man who has little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."
Contentment
"Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check its course; it will make no noise, it will not remind you of its swiftness. Silent it will glide on; it will not prolong itself at the command of a king, or at the applause of the populace. Just as it was started on its first day, so it will run; nowhere will it turn aside, nowhere will it delay."
Time
"I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I complain of in apt metaphor, I am distressed, not by a tempest, but by sea-sickness."
Psychology
"No man was ever wise by chance."
Wisdom
"Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them."
Philosophy
"Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men."
Courage
"It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable."
Mindset
"He who decides a case without hearing the other side though he decide justly cannot be considered just."
Justice
"When I think over what I have said I envy dumb people."
Reflection
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