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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."
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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
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"Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue."
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"The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices."
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"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."
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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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"He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both."
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"Live life with great humility."
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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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"Two people can illustrate crudity to you.The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone.The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the first one."
Perception


"The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured."
Perception


"A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird."
Friendship


"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
Self-Control


"These lecture provide material for the consideration of common factors, in theory and in development, from the viewpoint of the idea of surrender to the Divine Will, reviewing some aspects of the interplay between Christians and Moslems, and introducing material from and about Sufis."
Spiritual


"Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions."
Reflection


"When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it."
Mastery


"Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information."
Judgment


"If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth."
Insight


"Even if false gold makes a man happy:At the mint it will be identified."
Truth
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