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"There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous."
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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."

"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one."

"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."

"I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What's bad is bad even if necessary."

"The value system of a country comes from the pulpit."
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"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world."

"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

"Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us."

"Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good."

"One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better."

"Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion."

"It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false."

"If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!"

"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."

"Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary."
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