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"The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence"
Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher
"The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre"
Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher
"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough, and thorny way"
Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher
"The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage"
Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher
"It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason"
Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher
"Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies"
Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher
"An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity"
Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher
"If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?"
George Orwell, Author
"On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time"
George Orwell, Author
"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them"
George Orwell, Author
"Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception"
George Orwell, Author
"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell"
George Orwell, Author
"A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him"
George Orwell, Author
"I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water"
Maya Angelou, Poet
"Effective action is always unjust"
Maya Angelou, Poet
"About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after"
Ernest Hemingway, Novelist
"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution, but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one"
Ernest Hemingway, Novelist
"I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after"
Ernest Hemingway, Novelist
"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver"
Edmund Burke, Statesman
"Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind"
Edmund Burke, Statesman
"Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts"
Ernest Hemingway, Novelist
"Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies"
Alexander Pope, Poet
"The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave"
Alexander Pope, Poet
"The difference is too nice - where ends the virtue or begins the vice?"
Alexander Pope, Poet
"There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
"The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice"
Thomas Paine, Writer
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right"
Thomas Paine, Writer
"I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed"
Jonathan Swift, Writer
"Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning"
William S. Burroughs, Writer
"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness"
Virginia Woolf, Author
"Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do"
Virginia Woolf, Author
"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it!"
Malcolm X, Activist
"Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward"
Ovid, Poet
"An evil life is a kind of death"
Ovid, Poet
"All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil"
Ovid, Poet
"We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation"
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer
"The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest"
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer
"When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa"
Honore de Balzac, Novelist
"The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste"
Honore de Balzac, Novelist
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