"The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength."

Morality, Truth, Strength, Values, Principle

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"The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength."

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"...evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own."

Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist

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"The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who is very remiss in this duty and makes the creditor wait tediously. But that second man has his own way of looking at things; asks himself Which debt must I pay first, the debt to the rich, or the debt to the poor? the debt of money or the debt of thought to mankind, of genius to nature? For you, O broker, there is not other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul."

R. Alan Woods, American Author

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"Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers."

Elie Wiesel, American Novelist

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"The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality."

Pat Robertson, American Clergyman

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"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."

George Orwell, British Author

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"Morality without a sense of paradox is mean."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping."

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"CHORUS:You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles and was a man most masterful; not a citizen who did not look with envy on his lot- see him now and see the breakers of misfortune swallow him!Look upon that last day always. Count no mortal happy till he has passed the final limit of his life secure from pain."

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"All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils."

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"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

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"How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth."

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"Wisdom is the most important part of happiness."

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"One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession."

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"Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty."

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"Who seeks shall find."

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"The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity,Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope."

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