"Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it."
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"Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place."
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"He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed; ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he has enjoyed."
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"But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions."
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"There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of "expediency." There is no such thing as sliding up- hill.In morals the only sliders are backsliders."
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"The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us."
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"Nature is goodness crystallized."
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"Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good."
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"The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen."
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"Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve."
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"Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy."
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"Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness."
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"Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether...it should be maintained or abolished."
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"Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it."
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"Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred."
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"Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it."
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"Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain."
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"Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality."
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"The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed."
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"Master-morality and Slave-morality."
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