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"All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil."
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"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
"Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?"
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"The joy of seeing another person in pain, frustrated or angry is a delicacy only for the most wicked."
"Seeing them assembled in Tartarus, Percy felt as hopeless as the spirits in the River Cocytus. So what if he was a hero? So what if he did something brave? Evil was always here, regenerating, bubbling under the surface. Percy was no more than a minor annoyance to these immortal beings. They just had to outwait him. Someday, Percy's sons or daughters might have to face them all over again."
"Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil."
"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."
"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."
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"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government."
"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion."
"It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong."
"The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."
"The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell."
"He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn."
"Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet."
"The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?""
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