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The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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.

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.