"...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence."
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"Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands."
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"Morality is contraband in war."
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"Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something."
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"No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style."
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"Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age."
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"Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one"
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"We must not fall into the trap of projecting our own morality onto the Soviet leaders. They do not share our aspirations, they are not constrained by our ethics, they always consider themselves exempt from the rules that bind other states."
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"This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again."
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"Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity."
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"Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date."
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"All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things."
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"An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit."
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"What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess."
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"Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience."
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"Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis."
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"If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it."
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"... thething I am proudest of in my whole business life is that I do not take, that I never took in all my life, and never, never! will take, one single penny more than 6% on any loan or any contract."
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"Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours."
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"The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac."
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