"All good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as if from the head into the eyes."

Morality, Soul, Evil, Body, Nature

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"All good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as if from the head into the eyes."

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"We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own."

Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist

Morality, Suffering, Memory, Ethics, Animals

"The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality."

Pat Robertson, American Clergyman

Morality, Being, Public, Symbol

"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."

George Orwell, British Author

Morality, Humanity, Behavior, Limit

"The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

Morality, Sin, Love, Compassion

"Every good act is like a seed that we sow. We don't know what it will bear, but it will bear some fruit some day."

R.V.M., Indian Author

Morality, Goodness, Hope, Action, Patience

"Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Morality, Country, Custom, Feeling

"In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ..."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Morality, Action, Ethics, Silence, Word

"Humility is a virtue of the heavenly, not arrogance. Are we the most superior beast on earth? No, not in strength and not in intelligence. It is very arrogant to assume that we are the most intelligent species when we keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. Both rats and monkeys have been shown to learn from error, yet we have not. More people have died in the name of religion than any other cause on earth. Is massacring God's creations really serving God " or the devil? And what father would want to see his children constantly divided and fighting? What God would allow a single human life to be sacrificed for monetary gain? Again, the Creator or the devil?"

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

Morality, Humility, Arrogance, Superiority, Intelligence

"If all of our sins, bad habits, and poor choices were permanently inked into our skin like tattoos, we would all dress quite modestly."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Morality, Sin, Truth, Regret, Habit

"Don't do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It is the "why" that keeps us committed to our choices and defines our character."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Morality, Right, Reason, Commitment, Character

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"Can I by justice or by crooked ways of deceit ascend a loftier tower which may he a fortress to me all my days? For what men say is that, if I am really just and am not also thought just profit there is none, but the pain and loss on the other hand are unmistakable. But if, though unjust, I acquire the reputation of justice, a heavenly life is promised to me. Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote myself."

Philosophy

"Then as for those who gaze upon many beautiful things but don't see the beautiful itself, and aren't even capable of following someone else who leads them to it, and upon many just things but not the just itself, and all the things like that, we'll claim that they accept the seeming of everything but discern nothing of what they have opinions about."

Perception

"Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty."

Integrity

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."

Education

"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."

Humor

"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods."

Love

"Self-conquest is the greatest of victories."

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"We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own."

"The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality."

"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."

"The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him."

"Every good act is like a seed that we sow. We don't know what it will bear, but it will bear some fruit some day."

"Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers."

"In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ..."

"If all of our sins, bad habits, and poor choices were permanently inked into our skin like tattoos, we would all dress quite modestly."

"Don't do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It is the "why" that keeps us committed to our choices and defines our character."

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"A boy is of all wild beasts the most difficult to manage."

"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."

"Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly."

"Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty."

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."

"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."

"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods."

"Self-conquest is the greatest of victories."