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Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

Fear is the mother of morality.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.