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!
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
You're not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in — and you're willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.
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.
Asian American success is often presented as something of a horror — robotic, unfeeling machines psychotically hellbent on excelling, products of abusive tiger parenting who care only about test scores and perfection, driven to succeed without even knowing why.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
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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