Great Throughts Treasury

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Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

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Peace | Virtue | Virtue |

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Tommaso Campanella, baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella

This race of men came there from India, flying from the sword of the Magi, a race of plunderers and tyrants who laid waste their country, and they determined to lead a philosophic life in fellowship with one another.

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Cleanliness | Labor |

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Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

If you love life, the fear of death.

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Virtue | Virtue |

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Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

The war is not so expensive that bondage.

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Practice | Usefulness | Virtue | Virtue |

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Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.

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Virtue | Virtue |

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Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

High place is quick to educate high minds.

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Glory | Virtue | Virtue |

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Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.

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Virtue | Virtue |

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Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.

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Agony | Courage | Man | Virtue | Virtue | Privilege |

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Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

The maxims of men betray their hearts.

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Criticism | Death | Envy | Fear | Jealousy | Labor | Men | Merit | Virtue | Virtue |

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Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.

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Virtue | Virtue |

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Hsuan Hua, aka An Tzu and Tu Lun

Money is the filthiest thing around. If you stay around it very long, you'll be defiled.

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Conscience | Deeds | Good | Heaven | Means | People | Virtue | Virtue | Deeds |

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Hung Tzu-ch'eng, also Hong Zicheng or Hóng Zìchéng, born Hong Yingming

When you are still plowing fields ahead, make a point of being open-minded, and there will be no murmuring among others. After your life is over, its blessings will flow for a long time, giving contentment to people in their thoughts.

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Integrity | Virtue | Virtue |

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Tripitaka or Tipitaka NULL

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

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Control | Discipline | Good | Man | Mind | Peace | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Wisdom | Happiness |

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Hung Tzu-ch'eng, also Hong Zicheng or Hóng Zìchéng, born Hong Yingming

Do not hate the man with the lowest.

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Energy | Fame | Scholar | Spirit | Virtue | Virtue | Will |

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Tripitaka or Tipitaka NULL

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.

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Good | Guidance | Light | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom | Guidance |

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Tryon Edwards

Nature and revelation are alike God's books; each may have mysteries, but in each there are plain practical lessons for everyday duty.

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Enjoyment | Men | Morality | Prudence | Prudence | Society | Virtue | Virtue | Society | Old | Vice |

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Hsuan Hua, aka An Tzu and Tu Lun

Always be honest and open in your speech and actions. Don't be sneaky or evasive with anyone. A straight mind is the Bodhimanda.

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Morality | People | Religion | Virtue | Virtue | Words | World |

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Turkish Proverbs

The Devil interferes with hurried work. (Meaning: If you hurry your work it will turn out wrong.)

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Virtue | Virtue | Learn |

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Thomas Malthus, fully Thomas Robert Malthus

With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation.

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Law | Marriage | Nature | Virtue | Virtue |

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Thomas Malthus, fully Thomas Robert Malthus

The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity.

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Temptation | Virtue | Virtue | Temptation |

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