"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time."

Morality, Truth, Lies, Deception, Integrity

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"The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Morality, Change, Ethics, Self-Improvement

"We do what we enjoy, even if it is act of evil."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Morality, Choice, Truth

"And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Morality, Forgiveness, Religion, Justice

"When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Morality, Growth, Self-Awareness, Evil, Improvement

"Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."

John Ruskin, English Writer

Morality, Taste

"A person is what he says and does, that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Morality, Reputation, Truth, Character, Action

"Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Morality, Satan, Pleasure, Choice

"The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right names, we will yield to a more modern nomenclature and call it dignity."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Morality, Modesty, Dignity, Prejudice, Truth

"How can I blame others, when I cannot stop myself committing crimes?"

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Morality, Crime, Self, Responsibility, Truth

"Sin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

Morality, Sin, Conflict, Heart, Power

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"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."

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"If you serve humanity, you serve humanity's God."

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"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."

Diplomacy

"Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia."

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"A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character."

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"We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest."

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"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."

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"The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive."

"We do what we enjoy, even if it is act of evil."

"And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven."

"When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him."

"Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."

"A person is what he says and does, that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured."

"Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds."

"The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right names, we will yield to a more modern nomenclature and call it dignity."

"How can I blame others, when I cannot stop myself committing crimes?"

"Sin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne."

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"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."

"If you serve humanity, you serve humanity's God."

"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."

"Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government."

"Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man."

"Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people."

"Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia."

"A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character."

"We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest."

"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."