#persons

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

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A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good. ↗

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time. ↗

— Aristotle

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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. ↗

— Aristotle

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Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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