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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Grub first, then ethics.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

In modern war… you will die like a dog for no good reason.