"Morality is a private and costly luxury."

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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Morality, Godliness, Spirit, Virtue, Leadership

"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Morality, Exaggeration, Truth, Human, Emotion

"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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Morality, Friendship, Virtue, Vice, Influence

"One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Morality, Kindness, Deed, Knowledge, Value

"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

Morality, Shame, Deception, Greed, Corruption

"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Morality, Sacrifice, Conflict, Ethics

"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Morality, Humility, Contrast, Behavior

"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian Novelist

Morality, Self, Betrayal, Sin, Regret

"It is better to be kind than to seek much knowledge."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Morality, Kindness, Knowledge, Value, Choice

"It is better to be slave to righteousness of God than sin of satan."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Morality, Righteousness, Slavery, Sin, God

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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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"He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers."

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"Politics are a very unsatisfactory game."

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"Friends are born, not made."

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"It is always good men who do the most harm in the world."

Man

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

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

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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."

"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."

"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."

"One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge."

"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."

"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."

"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."

"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing."

"It is better to be kind than to seek much knowledge."

"It is better to be slave to righteousness of God than sin of satan."

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"Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts."

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

"A friend in power is a friend lost."

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

"He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers."

"Politics are a very unsatisfactory game."

"Friends are born, not made."

"It is always good men who do the most harm in the world."

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

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