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Mercy to
living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and
contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are
but the entourage of morality.
-- Sila-Prabhrita
A system of
morality which is based on relative emotional values is a
mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has
nothing sound in it and nothing true.
-- Socrates
BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher
of Athens
Unfortunately,
moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person --
is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as
artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency
to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.
-- Susan Sontag
1933-, American Essayist
If your morals
make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say
''give them up,'' for they may be all you have; but conceal
them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better
and simpler people.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist,
Poet, Novelist
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Don't be too
moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
-- Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist,
Poet, Naturalist
Our whole life
is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce
between virtue and vice.
-- Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist,
Poet, Naturalist
Do not be too
moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above
morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
-- Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist,
Poet, Naturalist
Many people
convince themselves if it is economically necessary, it's
morally right. That's not always the case.
-- Source Unknown
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