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"Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position."
C.S. Lewis
"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible."
Saint Augustine
"A little neglect may breed great mischief."
Benjamin Franklin
"The devil made me do it the first time, and after that I did it on my own."
Robert Fulghum
"In the Orthodox spiritual tradition, the ultimate moral question we ask is the following: Is what we are doing, is what I am doing, beautiful or not?"
Carolyn Gifford
"What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me."
Charles William Stubbs
"Toleration is the best religion."
Victor Hugo
"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience."
George Washington
"A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected."
George Bernard Shaw
"Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well."
George Bernard Shaw
"It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken."
Aristotle
"Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing."
Michael Iapoce
"If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip."
Will Rogers
"There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience."
Euripides
"We're not all alike but we can all like each other."
Jason Mechalek
"If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure."
Marcel Proust
"As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral."
Marcel Proust
"Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense."
Robert Heinlein
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