"Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state."

Ethics, Wealth, Goodness, Blessing

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"Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state."

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"Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Ethics, Moral Foundation, Character, Influence, Values

"To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"Sometimes it is better to say 'no' and lose your job than it is to say 'yes' and lose your soul."

Todd Stocker, American Author

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"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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"I was brought up to be honest; the trouble is it gets me nowhere." Liking her better, he smiled and said, "It'll get us to heaven." "Will it?" "If heaven existed." "Do you not believe in heaven, Mr. Fielding, may I ask?" she said, looking at him shyly. "I do not. Yet I believe that honesty gets us there."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"The Lord does not love wicked people with self-interest and involved in inquity."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Ethics, Wickedness, Faith, Justice, Morality

"Every society which allows violence against animals secretly becomes a violent society."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"It is better to have little and be right than to have much and be wrong."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."

Balance

"Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of -- for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."

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"I am not an Athenian nor a Greek but a citizen of the world."

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"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true."

Morality

"To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge."

Humility

"The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him."

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"Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."

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"Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear."

"To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed."

"Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it."

"Sometimes it is better to say 'no' and lose your job than it is to say 'yes' and lose your soul."

"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."

"People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty."

"The Lord does not love wicked people with self-interest and involved in inquity."

"Every society which allows violence against animals secretly becomes a violent society."

"It is better to have little and be right than to have much and be wrong."

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"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."

"I am not an Athenian nor a Greek but a citizen of the world."

"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true."

"To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge."

"The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him."

"An honest man is always a child."

"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think."

"Wisdom is knowing you know nothing."

"Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."