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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue
is at hand.
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue
is at hand.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.
Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because read more
Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, read more
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering
pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but read more
That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering
pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and
imitation of virtue.
[Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium
impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque
virtutis.]
