"One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us."

Morality, Duty, Beauty, Values, Ethics

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"One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us."

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"What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"Let your thoughts be pure."

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"One is God himself, [but] for how long does that authority of God last? As long as he speaks the truth, practices non-violence, does not steal, practices celibacy and remains non-acquisitive " till then power of God will remain."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"Every animal is biologically designed by Nature to do wrong in return. It takes a human being to not do wrong in return."

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"Conceit is to be dreaded, but so is cowardice."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"All humans are rogues. Cured only by death."

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"So what if you're right? So what if you're wrong? In the end you might be surprised to find that God doesn't care so much about whether you were right or wrong but whether, despite it all, you were kind or cruel."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Fear is the devil's most powerful tool because he can't always convince a good man to do wrong, but he can paralyze his will with fright, keeping a good man from doing what is right. It eventually results in the same end."

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"Once the ego is born into this world, it has to shoulder morality."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"I'm no more modern than ancient, no more French than Chinese, and the idea of a native country, that is to say, the imperative to live on one bit of ground marked red or blue on the map and to hate the other bits in green or black, has always seemed to me narrow-minded, blinkered and profoundly stupid. I am a soul brother to everything that lives, to the giraffe and to the crocodile as much as to man."

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"The public wants work which flatters its illusions."

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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

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"I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony."

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"At last she sighed."But the most wretched thing - is it not? - is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only of some use to someone, we should find consolation in the thought of the sacrifice."

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"It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling."

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"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."

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"The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens."

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"Sadness is a vice."

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