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To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

– Confucius, The Confucian AnalectsRate it:

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

– ConfuciusRate it:

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

– VoltaireRate it:

To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.

– Suzanne GordonRate it:

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

– SenecaRate it:

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.

– Sir Walter ScottRate it:

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

– Og MandinoRate it:

To be always right, be compassionate and kind.

– Debasish Mridha, M.D.Rate it:

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

– Richard WhatelyRate it:

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

– Philip SidneyRate it:

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

– Jean de La BruyèreRate it:

To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.

– C. E. MontagueRate it:

To be an adult is to be alone.

– Jean RostandRate it:

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

– George SantayanaRate it:

To be at peace with ourselves we need to know ourselves.

– Caitlin MatthewsRate it:

To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. ... For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.

– Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICSRate it:

To be beyond yourself is the gate to wisdom.

– Sorin CerinRate it:

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.

– Helen KellerRate it:

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

– MadonnaRate it:

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

– William HazlittRate it:

To be clear: I am not anti-marriage. I am anti-marrying-people-who-suck-at-life-and-will-suck-the-life-out-of-you.

– Ingrid WeirRate it:

To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

– George Bernard ShawRate it:

To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

– G. K. ChestertonRate it:

To be closer to God, be closer to people.

– Kahlil GibranRate it:

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