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"The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive."
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Personal Development
"We do what we enjoy, even if it is act of evil."
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Personal Development
"And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven."
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Personal Development
"When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him."
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Personal Development
"Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."
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Personal Development
"Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds."
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Personal Development
"The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right names, we will yield to a more modern nomenclature and call it dignity."
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Personal Development
"Life is indeed terribly complicated-to a man who has lost his principles."
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"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn."
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Personal Development
"For when once people have begun to believe that prosperity is the reward of virtue, their next calamity is obvious. If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. Men will leave off the heavy task of making good men successful. He will adopt the easier task of making out successful men good."
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"My lord father used to say a man should never draw his sword unless he means to use it."
Duty
"Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?"
Justice
"Words are wind, and the wind from Manderly's mouth means no more than the wind escaping his bottom."
Humor
"Why would the stars want to look down on such as me?"
Wonder
"It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads."
Family
"Brick and blood built Astapor, and brick and blood her people."
History
"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die."
Duty
"Dragons are fire made flesh."
Mythology
"Most of the stories you hear about dragons are fodder for fools."
Mythology
"A sweet fate oft hides a sinner's heart."
Morality
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