"Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad, for any other goodness is usually merely inertia or lack of will - power"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Morality, Strength, Willpower, Ethics

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"Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad, for any other goodness is usually merely inertia or lack of will - power"

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"The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Morality, Change, Ethics, Self-Improvement

"We do what we enjoy, even if it is act of evil."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Morality, Growth, Self-Awareness, Evil, Improvement

"Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"A person is what he says and does, that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Morality, Reputation, Truth, Character, Action

"Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Morality, Satan, Pleasure, Choice

"The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right names, we will yield to a more modern nomenclature and call it dignity."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"How can I blame others, when I cannot stop myself committing crimes?"

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Morality, Crime, Self, Responsibility, Truth

"Sin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

Morality, Sin, Conflict, Heart, Power

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"The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive."

"We do what we enjoy, even if it is act of evil."

"And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven."

"When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him."

"Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."

"A person is what he says and does, that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured."

"Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds."

"The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right names, we will yield to a more modern nomenclature and call it dignity."

"How can I blame others, when I cannot stop myself committing crimes?"

"Sin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne."

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"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."

"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."

"When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness."

"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."

"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."

"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."

"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."

"Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love."

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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."