"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
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"Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof. Speak no evil of the absent, for it is unjust. Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise. There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth, and pursue it steadily. Nothing but harmony, honesty, industry and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy nation."
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"Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think."
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"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud."
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"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."
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"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."
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"The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others."
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"Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects."
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"The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man."
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"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."
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"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity."
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"When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed"
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"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."
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"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
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"People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise."
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"If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!"
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"We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger."
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"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."
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"Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear."
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"Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people."
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