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Reverence

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. - Plato.


Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. – Aristotle.


The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness. – Aristotle.


Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence. – Socrates.


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