Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Wise Quotes

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. ~Chinese Proverb

I am proud and thankful that it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed. - Mary J. Lineberry

We can fight the inevitable fragility of age, but we cannot erase a bad conscience. – Mary J. Lineberry

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. ~Aristotle

To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. ~Confucius

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh, 1849

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But, after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. ~Buddha

“It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful.” ~ Anton LaVey


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