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"Never will your striving for that which improves you and earns divine reward be wasted."
"Verily the person with the best lifestyle is one through whose life the lives of others are improved."
"There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the ."
"Men might be better if we better deemed Of them. The worst way to improve the world Is to condemn it."
"Inward improvements have a worth and dignity in themselves quite distinct from the power they give over outward things."
"Those who are striving to improve the lot of man may ground their hopes."
"That's how we continue on, and will improve our lot in life, solve the problems that arise. Partly out of necessity, partly out of this drive to improve."
"I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul."
"For if you think that by killing men you can avoid the accuser censoring your lives, you are mistaken; that is not a way of escape which is either possible or honorable; the easiest and the noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves."