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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

By that sin fell the angels.

If the end does not justify the means – what can?

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.