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"We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and the other which we practice but seldom preach."
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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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"People today...it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice."
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"Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice but in not desiring it."
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"At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that conscience, furious for the right, grasped and overwhelmed him! How many times had truth, inexorable, planted her knee upon his breast! How many times, thrown to the ground by the light, had he cried to it for mercy!"
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"There are two things that can stop us from committing an evil act, love and fear- religion always chooses the latter one."
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"There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty."
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"Messages of instant gratification leads to a corrupt society."
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"Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not."
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"When we bless one another we shouldn't expect returned favours because blessings have no strings attached and they hold no sorrow."
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"You will not live the life of royalty, if you don't understand the meaning of loyalty."
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"In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics."
Struggle
"You all know the argument from design: everything in the world is made just so that we can manage to live in the world, and if the world was ever so little different, we could not manage to live in it. That is the argument from design. It sometimes takes a rather curious form; for instance, it is argued that rabbits have white tails in order to be easy to shoot. I do not know how rabbits would view that application."
Reasoning
"The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved."
Achievement
"I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation, as far as possible, from the tyranny of the here and now."
Wisdom
"The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them."
Society
"Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time."
Life
"Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness it is a sign of emotional failure."
Emotion
"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."
Life
"Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives."
Love
"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought."
Education
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