“Our ideals are our better selves”
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“Our ideals are our better selves”
“Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge”
“You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.”
“There are in every man, at every hour, two simultaneous postulations, one towards God, the other towards Satan”
“I am swimming in dishonor like a fish in water”
“Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained”
“The weak in courage is strong in cunning”
“None but blockheads copy each other”
“If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold”
“We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself”
“Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!”
“Human nature is above all things lazy”
“Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good”
“The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity”
“What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic”
“Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm”
“To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization”
“When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something”
“It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true”
“He who did most, shall bear most; the strongest shall stand the most weak”