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...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

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The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don't make it metaphysical at all.

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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

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[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle; and the right principle is the principle determined by Prudence.

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Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion.

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The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.

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We will stand on principle or we will not stand at all.

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The United States is a Christian nation founded upon Christian principles and beliefs.

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Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.

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The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

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Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful.

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It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

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The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

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Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists.

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The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings.

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Even matter called inorganic, believed to be dead, responds to irritants and gives unmistakable evidence of a living principle within. Everything that exists, organic or inorganic, animated or inert, is susceptible to stimulus from the outside.

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Of course, we will face fear, experience ridicule, and meet opposition. Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

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When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path.

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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

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You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

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