Shane Neeley

The daily reader Leo Tolstoy

A Calendar
of Wisdom.

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July 11

Truly virtuous is the person who gives his love to the weak.

Power is given to a person, not to oppress the weak, but to support and to help the weak.

—JOHN RUSKIN

Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again. And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

—LUKE 6:30-31

Every kind thing is a virtue. To give water to a thirsty person, or to pick up a stone from a road, or to convince your neighbors and friends that they should be virtuous, or to show a traveler his way, or to smile looking into your neighbor’s face—all this is virtue.

—MOHAMMED

If a rich person could be truly virtuous, then he would stop being rich very quickly.

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