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The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and…
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It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many…
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As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended…
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Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we…
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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food
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The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that…
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People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by…
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Happiness does not consist in self-love.
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The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the…
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Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and…
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Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour,…
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Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by…
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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
— Francis Bacon
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One must never be perfidious to his master. In the Lun Yu it says: One should act according to the way even…
— Takeda Nobushige
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Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been…
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It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons,…
— Rajneesh
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Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.
— Thomas Jefferson
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There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow,…
— Leo Tolstoy
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I understand that life is not black and white, everything has a different hand, lots of them, I act according to the…
— Danila Kozlovsky
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There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The child learns to believe a host of things. I.e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
— Aleister Crowley
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Do not be fooled by one who recites the Qurân. His recitation is but speech – but look to those who act…
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