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"All universal moral principles are idle fancies."
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"I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be."
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"That which never attains a state of non-principle [non-truth] is known as the principle."
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"The first principle of time is that it must be converted into product."
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"All universal moral principles are idle fancies."
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"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."
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"In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism."
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"Principle' [Established Truth] means everywhere applicable; when there is nothing else, it is called Principle."
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"This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation."
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"But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle."
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"It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled."
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"There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience."
Experience

"They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch."
Philosophy

"All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one."
Nature

"The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?"
Imagination

"Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust."
Life

"'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death."
Death

"My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!"
Care

"Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization."
Happiness

"There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author."
Nature

"The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind."
God
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