"The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him."

Humility, Life, God, Soul, End

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"The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him."

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"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true."

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"He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy."

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"Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence."

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"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."

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"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate."

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"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be."

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"One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him."

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"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."

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