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The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers…

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One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either…
Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded…
There are some poisons which, before they kill men, allay pain and diffuse a soothing sensation through the frame. We may recognize…
Contraction of theological influence has at once been the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.
The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. .…
In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.
There are times in the lives of most of us, when we would have given all the world to be as we…
Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and…
Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.
Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.
I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so…
The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous…

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Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. — Lord Byron
Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality. — Clarence Day
If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it… — Louis Kronenberger
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell. — Bertrand Russell
All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe.… — Leon Trotsky
I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the… — Alexis de Tocqueville
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance. — Frederick Soddy
To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the… — John Burroughs
Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block… — Quentin Crisp
The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this… — Walter Lippmann
In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of… — Georges Cuvier
There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

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