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Mark Twain
: Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
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The aim of morality is to give people a standard of action and a motive to work by which, they will not intensify each person's selfishness, but raise them up above it.
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The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen.
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Oscar Wilde :
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Morality is the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.
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Nicolas Chamfort :
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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
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Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
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Susan Sontag :
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Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.
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John Galsworthy :
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I don't know much about morality and that, but there is this: It's always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it's going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe :
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It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
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You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.
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