Quote by Marcus Aurelius
A man should be upright, not be kept upright. - Marcus Aurelius

A man should be upright, not be kept upright. – Marcus Aurelius

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When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it. – Marcus Aurelius

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Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us. – George Eliot, Adam Bede

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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. – Mahatma Gandhi

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I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves — such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. – Albert Einstein, “What I Believe,” Forum and Century, 1930

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A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., speech, Boston, 8 January 1897

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If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits. – Don Ward

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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. – Liberty Hyde Bailey

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When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential. – Christine Gregoire

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Even rabbits insult an dead lion. – Proverb

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