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Morality is a
private and costly luxury.
-- Henry Brooks Adams
1838-1918, American Historian
The only
immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to
do it.
-- Jean Anouilh
1910-1987, French Playwright
Moral
excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just
by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave
by doing brave acts.
-- Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher
The moral
virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor
against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground
for their reception, but their complete formation is the
product of habit.
-- Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher
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Never let your
sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
-- Isaac Asimov
1920-1992, Russian-born
American Author
While moral
rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these
were so propounded would not validate them.
-- Sir Alfred Jules Ayer
1910-1989, British
Philosopher
I'm as pure as
the driven slush.
-- Tallulah Bankhead
1903-1968, American Actress
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.
-- Georges Bataille
1897-1962, French Novelist,
Critic
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