"Laws undertake to punish only overt acts." — Baron de Montesquieu

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• The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all… — Hannah Arendt
• Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate… — Aristotle
• The act of dying is one of the acts of life. — Marcus Aurelius
• Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. — Teresa of Avila
• What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and… — Sai Baba
• We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.… — Philip James Bailey
• A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs. — Bernard Baruch
• Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a… — Joseph Addison
• The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.… — Pope Benedict XVI
• Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long… — Alfred Adler
• He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. — William Blake
• Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of… — John Boehner

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