Aristotle Quotes, Defining Quotes, Principles Quotes

[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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Principles without programs are platitudes.

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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

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Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.

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It is my principle never to accept any donations from any government or any foreign funded organisation.

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The Tao principle is what happens of itself.

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Never can a reforming sect survive if it is only reforming; the formative elements alone - the real impulse, that is, the principles - live on and on.

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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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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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Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.

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Through the imparting of moral principles, good behaviour, and education we must make the Chandala come up to the level of the Brahmana.

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If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

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Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

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In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is nonetheless a living being

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We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

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Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.

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But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did they render unsound the negotiated purchases of fine businesses at sensible prices. Imagine the cost to us, then, if we had let a fear of unknowns cause us to defer or alter the deployment of capital. Indeed, we have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

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The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

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

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We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

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