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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
“Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’
Rise Above It
5 FebWhenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
**Rene Descartes
Troubled Times Breeds Both Honor and Cowardice ~ Which Will You Be? #Quotes
1 Feb“Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’
‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.”
**George RR Martin
A Very Noble Perspective! ~ #Quotes
29 Jan“Most people seem to take pleasure in feeling superior to someone. I’m not like that, which pleases me because it makes me feel superior.”
**Steven Brust
Honor the Virtuous First – Then Save the Bad
30 Aug“Take care lest perchance you fall into the mistake of thinking to gain more by being merciful than by being just; for to pardon him too easily that has transgressed is to wrong him that transgresses not.”
~ Baldassarre Castiglione
When the Earth Mourns ~ Where is the #Justice?
8 Aug“Why? Why do only selfish people live, but those with a heart and the righteous die? The heaven have made such a cruel choice. Is there no fairness in this world?”
~ Wei Zheng (Nirvana in Fire)
**I think perhaps it is this sense of Fairness and Justice that separates the good from the bad. The good know what should be done and do it, regardless of benefit to themselves. The bad see only what they would like to be done, seeing only the benefit to themselves. The less fairness the world displays, the worse you know things are.
“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city” ~ Roman Payne
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