"If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack."

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"If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack."

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"What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"Let your thoughts be pure."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Do we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend?"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Evil might not prevail in the end, but it certainly doesn't fail to devastate in its time."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life?Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual's morals ?"

Alain de Botton, English Writer

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"The only classification to be made out of humans should be based on character and nothing but the character."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"God's eyes readily see beyond our actions, for our actions are simply fear and selfishness pretending to be us."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"A goal lacking a sense of ethics is a goal that lacks any sense."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others."

"Let your thoughts be pure."

"Do we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend?"

"Evil might not prevail in the end, but it certainly doesn't fail to devastate in its time."

"The only classification to be made out of humans should be based on character and nothing but the character."

"The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?"

"God's eyes readily see beyond our actions, for our actions are simply fear and selfishness pretending to be us."

"A goal lacking a sense of ethics is a goal that lacks any sense."

"I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer."

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"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound."

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

"Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

"O fortune fortune! all men call thee fickle."

"Experience is by industry achiev'd,And perfected by the swift course of time."

"The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?"

"Journeys end in lovers meeting."

"Let every man be master of his time."

"The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."

"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."