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Johann K Lavater
: He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
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There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.
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To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
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Emile Durkheim :
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One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.
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People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.
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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
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I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work.
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Diogenes Laërtius :
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Epicurus laid down the doctrine that pleasure was the chief good.
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A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
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Albert Pike :
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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the
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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
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Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
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There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
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Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
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Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
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He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
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Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
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Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.
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