"It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption."
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"Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune."
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"A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law."
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"Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral."
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"We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured."
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"Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels."
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"Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour."
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"Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act - truth is always subversive."
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"We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue."
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"[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end."
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"...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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"The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values."
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"Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection, and the base of a moral existence."
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"There can be no compromise on moral principles."
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"Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life."
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"He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation."
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"He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale."
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"Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition."
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"The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'"
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"Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?"
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