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"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk."
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"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."
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"I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centered, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal."
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Personal Development
"Prostitution' is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from."
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Personal Development
"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
"Sin is the delusion of our feelings, while crime is the delusion of our actions."
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Personal Development
"We do what we enjoy, even if it is act of evil."
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Personal Development
"Sooner or later sin makes its claim on a person."
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Personal Development
"If you think of evil things, you are likely to do evil things and that will never pay you a pesewa. Think of good things and do good always!"
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Personal Development
"It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
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"Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save."
Love
"What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us."
Love
"A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine."
Morality
"The brave love mercy, and delight to save."
Love
"On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends."
Friendship
"I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them."
Woman
"But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest."
Love
"An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse."
Friendship
"Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives."
Morality
"There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self."
Conflict
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