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The value of hard work and persistence
How to stay focused on long-term goals
How to learn from failures and setbacks
My brother, if you have good luck, you have one virtue and no more: thus you walk more easily over the bridge.
It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot: and many having gone to the desert killed themselves, because they were tired of being the battle and battlefield of virtues.
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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance;
one cannot fly into flying.
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Behold how each of your virtues is covetous for the highest: it longs for your whole spirit to be its herald, it longs for your whole power in wrath, love and hatred.
Jealous is each virtue of the other, and a terrible thing...
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Once having passions you called them evil. Now however you have nothing but your virtues: they grew out of your passions.
You laid your highest goal upon these passions: then they became your virtues and delights.
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