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Marcus Aurelius

"It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being."

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"It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being."

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"The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices."

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"And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one."

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"But virtue, as it never will be moved,Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,So lust, though to a radiant angel linked,Will sate itself in a celestial bedAnd prey on garbage."

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"For every seed of godliness, kindness and justice sowed, there will be surely be a harvest of goodness, significance and greatness."

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"Godliness must be presented with its profit and incentives, not only for the good of the nation and society, but of eternal value."

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"When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous."

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"If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love - You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point."

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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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