"For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy."

Ethics, Innocence, Justice, Mercy, Goodness

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"For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy."

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"I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional."

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"Making money and being prosperous is a wonderful place to be, but not at the expense of your ethics, integrity, and reputation. It is simply not worth it. It nixes any chance of creating trusted working relationships."

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"The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world."

Faith

"I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums."

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"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude."

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"The issue is now quite clear. It is between light and darkness and every one must choose his side."

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"The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul."

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"The present condition of fame is merely fashion."

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"The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact."

Wisdom

"As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly."

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"The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can't play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all."

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"The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact, it is actually our truisms that are untrue."

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