#ethics

A noble soul is not that which is capable of the highest flights but that which rises little and falls little but

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A man who has lost all hope of rooting out of himself a certain radical defect of character, or even of hiding the flaw

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Wherever there are politics or economics no morality exists.

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Personal independence is a virtue and it is the soul out of which comes the sturdiest manhood. But there can be no

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If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that

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True politeness is a polish, not a varnish; and should rather be acquired by observation than admonition.

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Every time a man has brought victory to the dignity of the spirit, every time a man has said no to an attempt to enslave

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It’s time to tear away the veil of Isis and reveal the mystery. Whoever can’t endure the sight of the goddess, let him flee

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The cheerful man who does good deeds … is strong and carefree; but he who takes no heed of what is right and does not do what

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Everything has two handles, the one by which it may be carried, the other by which it cannot. If your brother acts unjustly,...

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A man has not everything to do, but something; and because he cannot do everything, it is not necessary that he should

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Ethics does not treat of the world. Ethics must be a condition of the world, like logic.

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There’s a difference as big as that between heaven and hell between the proud courage that dares to fear all and the

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Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.

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He that does good to another does also good to himself; not only in the consequence, but in the very act of doing it; for

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Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

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There are law-abiding and agreeable people who think and talk about humanity and life as if they were discussing the best way

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Courageous is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but also he who overcomes pleasures.

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I sit here between heaven and earth as a little stone or a little tree sits on a huge mountain. Since I can see my

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Very many controversies have arisen from the fact that men do not rightly explain their meaning, or do not rightly interpret

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We know nothing to be certainly good or evil, save such things as really conduce to understanding, or such as are able to

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If the wickedness of people arouses indignation and insurmountable grief in you, to the point that you desire to

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The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

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Everyone by nature desires that the rest of mankind should live according to his own individual disposition: when such a

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