"Morality is a private and costly luxury."

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"There are two paths that you must never leave in your life: The path of peace and the path of reason!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Morality, Truth, Life, Wisdom, Inspirational

"Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved."

Martin Luther, German Leader

Morality, Loyalty, Honor, Bravery, Commitment

"It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in ways that one cannot know."

Nelson Mandela, South African Statesman

Morality, Virtue, Generosity, Reward

"When we go through life believing that we need mercy, we're more likely to extend it. As humans our tendency is to want justice for others, but mercy for ourselves. It doesn't work that way. We reap what we sow. (Galatians 6:7) And the timing isn't ours-it's God's. He often extends us mercy, not when we are well behaved, but when we are miserable, helpless, wicked, ungodly, and powerless. Even when we bring on our problems by our own choices, His mercy comes when we cry for it. To refuse to cry for it because we feel unworthy, is a win for Satan."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

Morality, Mercy, Justice, Faith, Power

"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

Morality, God, Truth, Right

"Good to evil seems evil."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

Morality, Evil, Perception, Judgment

"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

Morality, Sin, Truth, Wisdom

"I never did or countenanced in public life a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith having never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Morality, Integrity, Truth, Ethics

"Why can't I be like that? Why can't I be the father who just shrugs off the love of his daughter? Why can't I be the Lead Inquisitor who enjoys watching his pleading victims burn at the stake? Why can't I be the one who befriends a lonely, lost girl and then casts her out? Why can't I be the one to strike first, to hit so early and with such fury that my enemies cower before they can ever think of turning on me? What is so great about being good?"

Marie Lu, American Author

Morality, Evil, Choice, Reflection

"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Morality, Truth, Lies, Deception, Integrity

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"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

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"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

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"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

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"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile."

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"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."

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"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand."

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"There are two paths that you must never leave in your life: The path of peace and the path of reason!"

"Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved."

"It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in ways that one cannot know."

"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."

"Good to evil seems evil."

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

"I never did or countenanced in public life a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith having never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man."

"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time."

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"Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius."

"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."

"Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man."

"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops."

"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile."

"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."

"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand."