#perfect

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#bear #done #else #even #imperfection

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#does #moral #passions #perfection #regulates

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. ↗

— Aristotle

#class #classes #community #control #middle

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. ↗

— Aristotle

#each #excellence #friendship #good #men

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobodys perfect, so why practice? ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#future life #life #makes #perfect #practice

Lucy is such a perfectionist. ↗

— Desi Arnaz

#perfectionist #such

People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them. ↗

— David Attenborough

#africa #clearly #due #future #happening

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#nature #perfect #perfected #still #studies

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#complete #cosmos #directs #elevates #eternally

I wish there were two of me and 48-hour days so I could get everything done. But for me, I have to not try and think that everything has to be 100% perfect all the time and leave room for error. As long as my kids feel loved and a priority, everything really is secondary. ↗

— Jessica Alba

#days #done #error #everything #feel