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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one’s own efforts.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

Conventionality is not morality.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

Machiavelli’s teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion dem , s at least the profession of good faith.