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> [“traditions that made an ideology out of the concept of Oneness created a morality that denigrated or made unreal the individual self with its individual interests. Any worldview that denies either the reality or importance of the individuated self ends…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/traditions-that-made-an-ideology-out-of-the-concept-of-oneness/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [ \[the virtues\] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is \[i.e. moral virtue\] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-virtues-cannot-exist-without-prudence-a-proof-of-this-is-that/)

[Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/)

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