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“In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character.”

Character Together Names Quality Moral Virtue Groups Development Balance Battle Perfection Intellect Active Passive Assemblage Great Battle Battle Of Life

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“The fierce and partial writers of the times, ascribing all virtue to themselves, and imputing all guilt to their adversaries, have painted the battle of the angels and the demons.”

Virtue Atheism Battle Angel Guilt Positive Atheism Demon Fierce Adversaries

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 3: Complete in Eight Volumes

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 3: Complete in Eight Volumes

“The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices.”

May Soul Moments Powerful Virtue Fields Ready Battle Army Vices Combination Opponents Encounters

Book:Miscellaneous works

Source: Miscellaneous works

“I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much superior to intellectual, that I ought to esteem one virtue more valuable than a hundred original thoughts.”

Moral Virtue Ought Battle Intellectual Hundred Originals Excellence Valuable Superiors Esteem Originality Conqueror Original Thought Moral Excellence

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

“Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. If one colony member devotes its life to service over marriage, the individual is of benefit to the society, even though it does not have personal offspring. A soldier going into battle will benefit his country, but he runs a higher risk of death than one who does not. An altruist benefits the group, but a layabout or coward who saves his own energy and reduces his bodily risk passes the resulting social cost to others.”

Ifs Doe Country Running Individual Energy Social Sin Results Virtue Risk Groups Higher Battle Cost Members Benefits Soldier Selfishness Coward Altruism Versus Selection Offspring Colony

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Just do right. Right may not be expedient, it may not be profitable, but it will satisfy your soul. It brings you the kind of protection that bodyguards can’t give you. So try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity. Take up the battle. Take it up. It’s yours. This is your life. This is your world.”

World Way Giving Trying Years Kind May Soul Virtue Regret Battle Protection Your Soul Useless Live Your Life Profitable Inertia Timidity Bodyguard

Author:Maya Angelou

“No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high. Whigs and Tories, Liberal party and Labour party - for what do they battle except their own prestige? It is not love of truth but desire to prevail that sets quarter against quarter and makes subserviency rather than the triumph of truth and the exaltation of virtue - but these moralities belong, and should be left to the historian, since they are as dull as ditch water.”

Source: Orlando: A Biography

“My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.”

War Evil Virtue Brother Battle Envy My Brother Distrust Biting Wars And Battles

Book:THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil

Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil

“But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.”

“Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth”

Men Mind Persons Earth Joy Values Fighting Knowing Virtue Pride Morality Battle Goodness Achievement Essence Absolutes Rational Certainty Sovereign Grandeur Radiant Rectitude

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged