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“ "Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage."”
The Analects of Confucius • Confucius“The teacher reminded us that Rome's liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly, gradually, furtively, little by little; first with a little corn and oil for the exceedingly poor and wretched, later with corn and oil for voters who were not quite so poor, later still with corn and oil for pretty much every man that had a vote to sell--exactly our own history over again.”
Purchasing Civic Virtue • Mark Twain“You will do the greatest service to the state, if you shall raise not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens.”
Fragment • Epictetus““And so of all other things;—justice is useful when they are useless, and useless when they are useful?””
Republic • Plato“Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior, but the rational for the sake of one another.”
Book VII • Marcus Aurelius