Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
See, this is the way I see it. Not all anger is the same. Because there are different kids of anger. And you know what else - sometimes, anger is a virtue. As long as you're not making someone bleed.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
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Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
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I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
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Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
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Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
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Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.
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As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our senses, and I do not see why we should accept the outside world as such solely by virtue of our senses.
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I am only strong enough for a life of partial virtue.
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Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.
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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.
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Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
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Any peace is better than any war.
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When you start searching for your name, you might be thrilled with what a lot of people say and it just takes one person. And it can hurt your feelings, but I have been aware of the fan bases and stuff like that and realize how deeply involved they are.
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I genuinely miss writing now on the rare days I don't write; my mouth waters when I think about writing, and I have an extreme physical reaction to the idea of doing it.
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Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
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See, this is the way I see it. Not all anger is the same. Because there are different kids of anger. And you know what else - sometimes, anger is a virtue. As long as you're not making someone bleed.
