Alain de Botton Quotes, Greek Quotes, Rewards Quotes

The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were now transposed to the sphere of work, while tasks lacking in any financial reward were drained of all significance and left to the haphazard attentions of decadent dilettantes. It now seemed as impossible that one could be happy and unproductive as it had once seemed unlikely that one could work and be human.

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If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

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The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

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Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.

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Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.

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If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

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Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?

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The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.

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There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

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I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

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The reward of eternal life requires effort.

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Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.

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Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.

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Salvation never will come through hope of reward.

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The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions.

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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.

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The greater the potential for reward in the value portfolio, the less risk there is.

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When we can do nothing else, we can still love, without expecting any reward or change or gratitude.

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Happiness is the reward of virtue.

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I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

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