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"General good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocite flatterer."
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"...evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is."
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"The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary."
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"We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own."
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"The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."
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"One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who is very remiss in this duty and makes the creditor wait tediously. But that second man has his own way of looking at things; asks himself Which debt must I pay first, the debt to the rich, or the debt to the poor? the debt of money or the debt of thought to mankind, of genius to nature? For you, O broker, there is not other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred."
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"There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul."
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"Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers."
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"The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality."
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"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."
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"Morality without a sense of paradox is mean."
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"We live as One Man for contracting our infinite senses we behold multitude or expanding: we behold as one."
Philosophy
"As a man is so he sees."
Wisdom
"If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise."
Wisdom
"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."
Perception
"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."
Friendship
"The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does."
Creativity
"Exuberance is beauty."
Beauty
"I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity."
Art
"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."
Motivation
"Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity."
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