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"Living honestly is a prerequisite for a clear conscience."
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Personal Development
"You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running."
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Personal Development
"People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked. The man who lies to the world, is the world's slave from then on. There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all."
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"A legendary horse is praised not for its strength, but for its Integrity."
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Personal Development
"Dimitri is dead," she said. It was a statement, not a question, but she was looking to me for confirmation. I wondered if I'd given away something, some hint that there was still more to the story. Or maybe she just needed the certainty of those words. And for a moment, I considered telling them that Dimitri was dead. It was what the Academy would tell them, what the guardians would tell them. It would be easier on them...but somehow, I couldn't stand to lie to them-even if it was a comforting lie. Dimitri would have wanted the whole truth, and his family would too. "No," I said, and for a heartbeat, hope sprang up in everyone's faces-at least until I spoke again. "Dimitri's a Strigoi."
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"Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others."
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Personal Development
"Well, whose opinion did you take? "I don't ask for opinions." "What do you go by?"Judgment. "Well, whose judgment did you take? "Mine. "But whom did you consult about it?". "Nobody."
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Personal Development
"It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."
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Personal Development
"I stood my ground. "You evil scientist are all the same--evil. Count me out."Fang and I brushed past Mr. God and walked quickly but smoothly to the exit. It was barely noon, and I'd already made a huge enemy.Dang, I'm good."
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"Tell me you're truth. I'm listening."
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"Study the past, if you would divine the future."
Future
"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue."
Virtue
"The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear."
Character
"Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles."
Morality
"Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven."
Death
"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."
Change
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
Learning
"It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs."
Wisdom
"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."
Action
"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."
Heart
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