Plato Quotes, Perfect Quotes, Justice Quotes

Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

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I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

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According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.

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The fact that there is always a positive side to life is the one thing that gives me a lot of happiness. This world is not perfect. There are problems. But things like happiness and unhappiness are relative. Realizing this gives you hope.

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The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect. The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.

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This season don't get lost in making the perfect meal or become overwhelmed with all the folks in your house. Use this time to center yourself.

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All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made.

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Perfect is unattainable. Better is possible.

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When we allow God to be exalted in our difficulties we are in the perfect place to smell the fragrance of His Presence.

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Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it.

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The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

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You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. Perfect love cannot be without equality. A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing. We are all alike, on the inside.

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I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.

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It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

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Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.

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Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.

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The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.

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Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

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Beauty through my senses stole; I yielded myself to the perfect whole.

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