"Above all things, lose no occasion of..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous, etc. Consider every act of this kind as an exercise which will strengthen your moral faculties and increase your worth.
More by Thomas Jefferson
“The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one.”
“We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.”
“Dependence leads to subservience.”
More on Morality
“When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.”
“In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.”
“Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.”
More on Character
“No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor afford to make powerful and unscrupulous foes, if he is himself vulnerable in his private character.”
“Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.”
“You need to learn independence. You have to be independent - it builds character.”