The defects of human nature ...

The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
 Moliere

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My personal coaching philosophy, my mentality, has always been to make things as difficult as possible for players in practice, however bad we can make them, I make them.
 Bill Belichick
There is an ocean of endless opportunities, and there are so many things that one can do. I'm so fortunate that I've grown up with this sort of a philosophy and mentality.
 Hafez Nazeri
I think hitting is more a mentality than a philosophy. A philosophy is somebody telling you the way they think it should be. Well, different people believe in different things. My thing is this: Be ready to hit.
 Chili Davis
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

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It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
 Molière
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
 Molière
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
 Moliere
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
 Moliere
The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
 Moliere