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

Virtue, Beauty, Soul, Character, Power

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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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"Assume a virtue if you have it not."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Crime when it succeeds is called virtue."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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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."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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

Socrates, Greek Philosopher

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"There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"The real virtue is not to be free from desires but to be content with what you have."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it."

Change

"Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."

Will

"Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh."

Death

"Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility."

Character

"Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live."

Man

"Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature."

Purpose

"Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature."

Nature

"Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back."

Death

"If the gods have determined about me and about the things which must happen to me, they have determined well, for it is not easy even to imagine a deity without forethought; and as to doing me harm, why should they have any desire towards that? For what advantage would result to them from this or to the whole, which is the special object of their providence? But if they have not determined about me individually, they have certainly determined about the whole at least, and the things which happen by way of sequence in this general arrangement I ought to accept with pleasure and to be content with them."

Fate

"Time is like a river of fleeting events and its current is strong as soon as something comes into sight it is swept past us and something else takes its place and that too will be swept away."

Time