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"When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him."
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"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."
"Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule."
"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."
"It is better to be kind than be impolite."
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"Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise."
"Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble."
"To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change."
"The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds."
"The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation."
"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."
"Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction."
"So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational."
"There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point."
"The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles."
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