"What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives."
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"The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can."
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"The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals."
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"Let unswerving integrity be your watchword."
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"Integrity needs no rules."
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"You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's bad."
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"Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics."
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"You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you."
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"When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with."
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"Work ethics eliminates fear."
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"Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms."
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"Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular."
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"Morality is a private and costly luxury."
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"Honest hearts produce honest actions."
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"Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved."
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"Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life."
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"A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity."
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"The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do."
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"The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it."
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"Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated."
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