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Human Strength and Weakness By Lindsey Purves
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/virtue Virtue To have or to try to achieve excellent moral. “Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.” - Socrates “Who sows virtue reaps honor.” -Leonardo da Vinci
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/vice Vice To be immoral or evil; to have flaws. “As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.”- Albert Einstein “Vice knows that she is ugly, so she puts on her mask.” - Benjamin Franklin
The desire to achieve something, or someone, and the will to do so. Ambition “Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.” -Napoleon Bonaparte “Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.” - Buddha http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ambition
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/duty Definition: Something required or expected to do, by obligation or moral.  “The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.”-Abraham Lincoln “Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.” -Jean Jacques Rousseau  Duty

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Human strength and weakness

  • 1. Human Strength and Weakness By Lindsey Purves
  • 2. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/virtue Virtue To have or to try to achieve excellent moral. “Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.” - Socrates “Who sows virtue reaps honor.” -Leonardo da Vinci
  • 3. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/vice Vice To be immoral or evil; to have flaws. “As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.”- Albert Einstein “Vice knows that she is ugly, so she puts on her mask.” - Benjamin Franklin
  • 4. The desire to achieve something, or someone, and the will to do so. Ambition “Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.” -Napoleon Bonaparte “Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.” - Buddha http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ambition
  • 5. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/duty Definition: Something required or expected to do, by obligation or moral. “The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.”-Abraham Lincoln “Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.” -Jean Jacques Rousseau Duty