"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."

Virtue, Learning, Imitation, Authenticity

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

Francis Bacon, English 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."

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"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."

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"If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they've been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we're headed right back toward The Virtues."

Geoffrey Wood, American Author

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"Live simply, share your wealth with others."

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"By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries."

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"Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself."

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"The more you look, the less you see."

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

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"From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying:'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment."

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"One day the cub will become a wolf, even if it has been reared among the sons of man."

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"Change only happens when the mind is willing to change."

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"No one is without fault. We can only aim to improve."

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"If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken."

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"Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not."

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"As Ibn Arabi says: 'Absolute existence is the source of all existence'."

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"Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it."

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