To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
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Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
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First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. The proceed to improve on the worst.
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
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As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Moral virtue is the child of habit.
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.
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If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh unless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.
Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
