Perfection
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Perfect is the virtue which is according to the Mean! Rare have they long been among the people, who could practice it!
Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.
The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.
Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.
Well, nobody's perfect.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration: this may be called perfect virtue.
Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.
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