One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.
JORDAN PETERSONIt’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.
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The purpose of life, as far as I can tell, is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.
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So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.
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If society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It’s a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.
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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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If a child has not been taught to behave properly by the age of four, it will forever be difficult for him or her to make friends.
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You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.
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There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.
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