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A noble soul is not that which is capable of the highest flights but that which rises little and falls little but

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 A noble soul is not that which is capable of the highest flights but that which rises little and falls little but

Mar 03,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #friedrich nietzsche #character #ethics #virtue #Assorted Opinions and Maxims

A man who has lost all hope of rooting out of himself a certain radical defect of character, or even of hiding the flaw

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 A man who has lost all hope of rooting out of himself a certain radical defect of character, or even of hiding the flaw

Feb 27,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #character #ethics #virtue #merit #reputation #Lev Shestov #All Things Are Possible #flaws

Personal independence is a virtue and it is the soul out of which comes the sturdiest manhood. But there can be no

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 Personal independence is a virtue and it is the soul out of which comes the sturdiest manhood. But there can be no

Feb 07,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #self #independence #character #ethics #virtue #Frederick Douglass #dependence #Self-Made Men

The cheerful man who does good deeds … is strong and carefree; but he who takes no heed of what is right and does not do what

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 The cheerful man who does good deeds … is strong and carefree; but he who takes no heed of what is right and does not do what

Dec 25,2023

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#quotes #Happiness #philosophy #fragments #ethics #virtue #Democritus

He that does good to another does also good to himself; not only in the consequence, but in the very act of doing it; for

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 He that does good to another does also good to himself; not only in the consequence, but in the very act of doing it; for

Nov 14,2023

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#quotes #philosophy #good #Seneca #ethics #virtue #actions #On Benefits

Seeing the small is called brightness; maintaining gentleness is called strength. Use this brightness to return to

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 Seeing the small is called brightness; maintaining gentleness is called strength. Use this brightness to return to

Nov 24,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #awareness #growth #ethics #virtue #Laozi #Daodejing #endurance

Those who are more skilled in railing at vice than in instilling virtue, and who break rather than strengthen men’

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 Those who are more skilled in railing at vice than in instilling virtue, and who break rather than strengthen men’

Feb 28,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #morality #ethics #Baruch Spinoza #virtue

The self-deceived person may even think he is able to console others who became victims of perfidious deception, but

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 The self-deceived person may even think he is able to console others who became victims of perfidious deception, but

Feb 21,2022

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#quotes #wisdom #philosophy #søren kierkegaard #understanding #ethics #virtue #deception #works of love

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

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 There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

Feb 19,2022

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#quotes #henry david thoreau #walden #philosophy #morality #ethics #virtue #goodness

Don’t defend the wrong side out of stubbornness, just because your opponent happened to arrive first and choose the right side.

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 Don’t defend the wrong side out of stubbornness, just because your opponent happened to arrive first and choose the right side.

Feb 13,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #Baltasar Gracián #The Art of Worldly Wisdom #ethics #virtue #stubbornness #humility

There is never an instant’s truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

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 There is never an instant’s truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Dec 26,2021

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#quotes #henry david thoreau #walden #philosophy #morality #ethics #virtue #vice

I must acquire many virtues, both for myself and for others. The discipline of a single one of those virtues might not

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 I must acquire many virtues, both for myself and for others. The discipline of a single one of those virtues might not

Dec 19,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #buddhism #ethics #virtue #compassion #Śāntideva #Bodhicaryāvatāra

The best way in which the excellence of each thing comes to be present in it, whether it’s that of an artifact or of a body or

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 The best way in which the excellence of each thing comes to be present in it, whether it’s that of an artifact or of a body or

May 04,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #good #plato #order #ethics #Socrates #Gorgias #virtue #self-control

A person of sharp observation and sound judgment rules over objects and keeps objects from ruling him.

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 A person of sharp observation and sound judgment rules over objects and keeps objects from ruling him.

Mar 22,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #awareness #Baltasar Gracián #The Art of Worldly Wisdom #character #ethics #virtue

What more or better can be said of any condition of human affairs, than that it brings human beings themselves nearer to

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 What more or better can be said of any condition of human affairs, than that it brings human beings themselves nearer to

Mar 11,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #good #character #politics #ethics #virtue #John Stuart Mill #On Liberty

Indeed it is often obvious in battle that one could escape death by throwing away one’s weapons and by turning to

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 Indeed it is often obvious in battle that one could escape death by throwing away one’s weapons and by turning to

Feb 09,2021

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#quotes #life #evil #philosophy #good #death #plato #morality #ethics #Socrates #virtue #vice #Apology

To act absolutely in obedience to virtue is in us the same thing as to act, to live, or to preserve one’s being in

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 To act absolutely in obedience to virtue is in us the same thing as to act, to live, or to preserve one’s being in

Jan 13,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #self #reason #rationality #ethics #Baruch Spinoza #virtue #actions

These reasonings are unconnected: ‘I am richer than you, therefore I am better’; 'I am more eloquent than you, therefore I

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 These reasonings are unconnected: ‘I am richer than you, therefore I am better’; 'I am more eloquent than you, therefore I

Jan 08,2021

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#quotes #people #philosophy #character #morality #ethics #virtue #Epictetus #wealth #talent #property #The Enchiridion #merit

Courage is indispensable because in politics not life but the world is at stake.

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 Courage is indispensable because in politics not life but the world is at stake.

Dec 27,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #courage #humanity #politics #ethics #virtue #Hannah Arendt #Between Past and Future

I go around doing nothing but persuading both young and old among you not to care for your body or your wealth in preference

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 I go around doing nothing but persuading both young and old among you not to care for your body or your wealth in preference

Dec 26,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #good #plato #ethics #Socrates #virtue #wealth #Apology #excellence

It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under

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 It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under

Dec 21,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #character #politics #revolution #ethics #Jean Paul Sartre #virtue #temperament #Dirty Hands

It is the most difficult thing in the world to distinguish between genuine stupidity, and that apparent and deceitful

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 It is the most difficult thing in the world to distinguish between genuine stupidity, and that apparent and deceitful

Dec 17,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #character #ethics #virtue #stupidity #Jean Jacques Rousseau #Emile or On Education #temperament #stubbornness

It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be

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 It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be

Dec 05,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #Arthur Schopenhauer #questions #courage #enlightenment #ethics #virtue #answers #inquiry

Every man is capable of doing good to another, but to contribute to the happiness of an entire society is to become akin to

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 Every man is capable of doing good to another, but to contribute to the happiness of an entire society is to become akin to

Dec 02,2020

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#quotes #Happiness #philosophy #good #society #humanity #ethics #virtue #Montesquieu #Persian Letters