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"Necessity makes an honest man a knave."
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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."
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"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."
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"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."
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"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one."
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"One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge."
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"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."
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"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."
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"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."
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"The value system of a country comes from the pulpit."
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"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."
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"The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear."
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"'Tis no sin to cheat the devil."
Devil

"In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled."
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"I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women."
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"Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes."
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"Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination."
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"Necessity makes an honest man a knave."
Morality

"Pride the first peer and president of hell."
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"All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have."
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"Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could."
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