Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Virtues

No man should be judged by his defects. The great virtues a man has are his especially; his errors are the common weaknesses of humanity and should never be counted in estimating his character.

- Vivekananda
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The whole question of sacrificing one's own pleasure assumes a different aspect, when the end for which it is to be sacrificed is not an addition to a general aggregate of pleasures, but the harmonious exercise of man's proper activities in some life resting on a self-sacrificing will............MacVegan

6:36 AM
Anonymous said...

"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.:
If I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me."...........MacVegan

7:17 AM
Anonymous said...

"The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them."
Socrates(469 BC - 399 BC) .....MacVegan

7:23 AM

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