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Virtuous Quotes by Laozi
- Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment.…
- The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.
- The virtuous carry out the settlement, but those without virtue pursue their claims.
- The new life created by the final integration is self-aware yet without ego, capable of inhabiting a body yet not attached to it, and guided…
- The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.
More Virtuous Quotes
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his… — Samuel Adams
- The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to… — John Ruskin
- Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind. — Walter Bagehot
- Real self-esteem has to be earned. I also believe in virtuous circles, like, nothing is fun until you are good at it.… — Amy Chua
- I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind,… — George Washington
- A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others. — Zengzi
- To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment;… — Benjamin Haydon