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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears,
when benevolence is lost right conduct appears,
when right conduct is lost, expedience appears.
Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth;
it is the beginning of disorder.
- Lao Tzu
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Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it BECAUSE it is right.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The lawyer's truth is not Truth,
but consistency or a consistent expediency.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
Consider a parent who says,
"Look at the sacrifices I'm making so you can have a better life."
Contrast that with another parent who demonstrates
living a great life every day.
Self-sacrifice is not a virtue.
Living a great life and sharing that life with others
is the noble way to live.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge
on their children rather than virtue,
the art of speaking well rather than doing well;
but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
There is a good ear, in some men,
that draws supplies to virtue
out of very indifferent nutriment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
- Cicero
There's a point... when you have to choose
whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life,
or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes,
but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Socialism is a philosophy of failure,
the creed of ignorance,
and the gospel of envy,
its inherent virtue is
the equal sharing of misery.
- Winston Churchill
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
- George Washington
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked
than it is loved by the good.
- The Buddha
There is a natural aristocracy among men.
The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is only the poor who pay cash,
and that not from virtue,
but because they are refused credit.
- Anatole France
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer
silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
- Albert Einstein
The inherent vice of capitalism
is the unequal sharing of blessings;
the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
- Winston Churchill
Dependence begets subservience and venality,
suffocates the germ of virtue,
and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
- Thomas Jefferson
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
- Oscar Wilde
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace,
then progress in virtue is progress in each of these
for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us,
progress is always an approach toward it.
- Epictetus
If you doubt the virtue in self-honor,
remember what the flight attendant says,
"Put your own oxygen mask on first."
You are of no use to anyone else
if you have not taken care of your own needs first -
this includes your own emotional,
as well as physical, well-being.
In addition, your greatest value to your children,
your family, your friends, and your community
is the example you set, leading a great life that inspires
those around you to emulate your being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor,
it covers the natural want of it,
and ends by rendering habitual a substitute
nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
- Thomas Jefferson
To enjoy good health,
to bring true happiness to one's family,
to bring peace to all, one must first
discipline and control one's own mind.
If a man can control his mind
he can find the way to Enlightenment,
and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
- The Buddha
There is also something excellent in every audience,
the capacity of virtue.
They are ready to be beatified.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth,
so virtue appears from good deeds,
and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind.
To walk safely through the maze of human life,
one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
- The Buddha
The Four Stages of Public Opinion
I (Just after publication): The novelty is absurd
and subversive of Religion and Morality.
The propounder both fool and knave.
II (Twenty years later): The Novelty is absolute Truth
and will yield a full and satisfactory
explanation of things in general -
The propounder a man of sublime genius and perfect virtue.
III (Forty years later): The Novelty won't explain
things in general after all, and therefore is a wretched failure.
The propounder a very ordinary person advertised by a clique.
IV (A century later): The Novelty a mixture of truth and error.
Explains as much as could reasonably be expected.
The propounder worthy of all honor
in spite of his share of human frailties,
as one who has added to the permanent possessions of science.
- Thomas Henry [T. H.] Huxley
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose
Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu
The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung
The heart knows nothing of the past,
nothing of the future;
it knows only of the present.
- Osho
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- Anais Nin
My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo
If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Don't be surly at home,
then go out in the street
and start grinning good morning
at total strangers.
- Maya Angelou
Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Regret is an appalling waste of energy,
you can't build on it - it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield
Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
- Ram Dass
We have no enemies,
we have only friendships that we haven't yet developed
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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