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"There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena."

"Good and bad are illusions. What exists is either the presence of empathy or the lack of it. I think this should become the new, clear definition of how we see people. No more "good" and no more "bad". Those terms are highly subjective."

"Respect the hand stronger than your hand if and only if that hand is just and an honourable hand!"

"On the matters where your country is wrong, don't take side with your country! Because it is always wrong to be on the side of wrong!"

"Mrs. Joe war eine sehr reinliche Hausfrau, doch sie verstand sich ausnehmend gut darauf, ihre Reinlichkeit bequemer und unertrA¤glicher zu machen, als jeder Schmutz gewesen wA¤re. Die Reinlichkeit ist der Gottesfurcht verwandt, und manche verfahren mit ihrer Religion ganz genauso."

"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."

"You may judge others only according to your knowledge of yourself."

"This is glorious!' I cried, and then i looked at the sinner by my side. He sat with his head sunk on his breast and said 'Yes', without raising his eyes, as if afraid to see writ large on the clear sky of the offing the reproach of his romantic conscience."
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"Ah, Caderousse,' said Andrea, 'how covetous you are! Two months ago you were dying with hunger.''The appetite grows by what it feeds on,' said Caderousse."

"However anxious one is to reach one's goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations."

"That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?"

"I don't think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."

"Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose."
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