"Let every man consider virtue as what..." - Quote by Confucius
Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.
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“If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?”
“Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.”
“Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”
More on Virtue
“Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the ruts of the last generation, but that wise men thinking for themselves and heartily seeking the good of mankind, and counting the cost of innovation, should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life; that the moral nature should be addressed in the school-room, and children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?”
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“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”
More on Responsibility
“There are those who say that poets should use her and his art to change the world. I'd agree with that, but I think everybody should do that. I think the chef and the baker and the candlestick maker - I think everybody should be hoping to make it a better world.”
“Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.”
“As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our responsibility toward others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier, than we found it.”