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Tag Archives: virtue
Quote of the day 11/13/25
From Epictetus: “Do not explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
Quote of the day 11/11/25
From Mahatma Gandhi: “It is better to perform one’s own duty, however imperfectly, than to perform another’s duty perfectly.”
Quote of the day 11/09/25
From Immanuel Kant: “The only thing that is good without qualification is a good will.”
Quote of the day 11/07/25
From Socrates: “It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong.”
Quote of the day 10/28/25
From Gautama Buddha: “Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.”
Quote of the day 10/07/25
From Wang Yang-Ming: “The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.”
Quote of the day 07/03/25
From the Jatakamala: “The virtuous retain in their mind the good done to them, whereas the evil they experience drops from their mind, like water from a lotus-petal.”
Quote of the day 06/28/25
From Jataka: “Now, therefore, it behooves me to examine into my faults; and if I find anything wrong in me, to put it away, and practice virtue only.”
Quote of the day 06/23/25
From the Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king: “Above all things be not careless; for carelessness is the great foe to virtue.”
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