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The most important virtues are
generosity, wit, friendliness,
truthfulness, magnificence, and greatness of soul. |
Aristotle |
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The man of
virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his
first business, and
success only a subsequent consideration. |
Confucius |
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The chief
virtue that language can have is
clearness, and nothing detracts from it
so much as the use of unfamiliar words. |
Hyppocrates |
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to
glory and virtue than education without natural ability. |
Marcus
Aurelius |
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Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us
everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are
of no further value to our advancement in
virtue. |
Augustine
of Hippo |
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A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show
no emotion.
Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is
hardly worth troubling about.
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Fyodor
Dostoyevski |
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The Loving Creator created us in his own
likeness. Be who you really are − a
loving creator − and virtue will
become a natural
way of life for you.
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Anything which is more than our necessity is
poison. It may be power,
wealth, hunger, ego, greed, laziness,
love, ambition, hate or anything. |
Rumi |
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Neither the
sexually immoral nor idolaters nor
adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor
drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit
the kingdom of God.
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Jesus |
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You can recognize a decent man by how
difficult it is for him to be indecent. |
Mikhail Zhvanetsky |
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The best time to plant a tree was 20 years
ago.
The second best time is now. |
Chinese
proverb |
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We are not only on planet Earth, we
are
planet Earth! Will you get this
now or will you get it when you are
buried? That's your choice.
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Sadhguru |
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It is in the nature of water ... to become transformed into
earth through a predominating earthy virtue; ... it is in the nature
of earth to become transformed into water through a predominating
aqueous virtue. |
Avicenna |
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As
beauty is in the eye of the beholder
all you need to be a beautiful person is to be
kind.
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"One word
frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
that word is love."
~ Sophocles
"Bitterness imprisons
life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life;
love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love
sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it.
Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes."
~ Harry Emerson
Fosdick |
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Zen
Zen is the Japanese
translation of the Sanskrit word
meaning meditation. Zen
is based on the practice of
transcendent virtues with
the most widely used being
generosity, moral training,
patient endurance, energy or
effort,
meditation, and
wisdom.
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When you get to the top of the mountain, keep
climbing. |
Zen
proverbs |
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