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If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.

— Mencius

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« Mercy » by Nicholas Roerich

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That which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right.

— James Anthony Froude

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« Good Samaritan » by Svetoslav Roerich

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He who does the most good is the greatest man. Power, authority, dignity; honors, wealth, and station,— these are so far valuable as they put it into the hands of men to be more exemplary and more useful than they could be in an obscure and private life. But then these are means conducting to an end, and that end is goodness.

— Bishop Jortin

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« Path Of Giants » by Nicholas Roerich

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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

— Seneca the Younger

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« Path To Tibet » by Nicholas Roerich

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The greatest man is he who chooses the right with the most invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.

— Seneca the Younger

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artist’s website : tomperkinson.com

Tom Perkinson (American,b.1940)

October storm of Santa Fe

Pastel

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No state of virtue is complete, however total the virtue, save as it is won by a conflict with evil, and fortified by the struggles of a resolute and even bitter experience.

— Horace Bushnell

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« Light Conquers Darkness » by Nicholas Roerich

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To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

— John Locke

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Wikipedia : Joan Miró

Joan Miró.

Vegetable Garden and Donkey. 1918 (oil,canvas)

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

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Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and of life.

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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« Himalayas » by Nicholas Roerich

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Virtue is the health of the soul.

— Aristo of Chios