Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Self-love is almost always the ruling principle of our friendships. It makes us avoid all our obligations in unprofitable situations, and even causes us to forget our hostility towards our enemies when they become powerful enough to help us achieve fame or fortune.
Madeleine de Souvre
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Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.
Eliza Haywood
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if four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault.
Naftali Bennett
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Love advice is like life advice, so there are so many elements of that. I think humor, patience, admiration are really important love elements. Love and respect. You have to respect the person that you're going to love, and you have to be confident in yourself and love yourself.
Zac Posen
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I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Aristotle
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Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.
Aristotle
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Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.
Aristotle
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Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.
Aristotle
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Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other, not having a rational principle in itself, is able to obey such a principle. And we call a man in any way good because he has the virtues of these two parts.
Aristotle
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One is punished best for one's virtues.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.
Friedrich Nietzsche
