Topics/Virtue
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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars
Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.
Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.
See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State What does it matter to me? the State may be given up for lost.
When a man’s partner is killed he’s supposed to do something about it. It doesn’t make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you’re supposed to do something about it.
If ill opinions cannot be quite rooted out, and you cannot cure some received vice according to your wishes, you must not, therefore, abandon the commonwealth, for the same reasons as you should not forsake the ship in a storm because you cannot command the winds.
Am I my brother’s keeper?
For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
