The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.
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The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
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Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel, supreme chief of the German armed forces, explained the thinking behind the Nazis' Night and Fog ... Efficient and enduring intimidation can only be achieved... by measures by which the relatives of the criminals do not know the fate of the criminals... These measures will have a deterrent effect because the prisoners will vanish without a trace and no information may be given as to their whereabouts or their fate.
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How can we know ourselves Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
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It matters little whether a man be mathematically, or philologically, or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.
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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
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