Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Topic: Virtue
- Location: Baja Peninsula, Mexico
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Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
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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.
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.
Love means to love that which is unloveable. Otherwise it is no virtue at all.
We ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.
To be able to practice five things everywhere under the heaven constitutes perfect virtue. . . gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
