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What is permissible is not always honorable.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Wrong is for other people.