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"The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day conduct."
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"It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit."
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"Morality is contraband in war."
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"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."
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"When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon."
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"We need to teach our people to speak what is right as the highest manifestation of morality."
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"It's okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy."
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"The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble."
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"The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed."
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"Talk without the support of action means nothing."
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"When truth and honesty is absent in the nation, it relates not just to the politicians."
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"Law, without force, is impotent."
Strength
"Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable."
Life
"We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavour to shine. We labour unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence, and neglect the real. And if we possess calmness, or generosity, or truthfulness, we are eager to make it known, so as to attach these virtues to that imaginary existence. We would rather separate them from ourselves to join them to it; and we would willingly be cowards in order to acquire the reputation of being brave. A great proof of the nothingness of our being, not to be satisfied with the one without the other, and to renounce the one for the other! For he would be infamous who would not die to preserve his honour."
Philosophy
"He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright."
Truth
"This dog is mine," said those poor children; "that is my place in the sun." Here is the beginning and the image of the usurpation of all the earth."
Life
"The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched."
Philosophy
"Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?"
Nature
"Losses are comparative only imagination makes them of any moment."
Philosophy
"We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end."
Life
"Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted."
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