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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

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The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

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‘Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

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Do not ever say that the desire to “do good” by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Morality

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

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