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“Gratitude free of compassion is selfishness. It is nothing more than being happy for what has been done to benefit you.”

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The question is not whether the good outweighs the bad. The question is whether or not the good excuses the bad. And, in my opinion, it doesn't. It never does. As long as wrongs are being commited, in any quantity, and in any ratio to the amount of good that is being done, it is both irresponsible and wrong not…

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In a world where God does not exist, any reasonable person must see that the propensity toward selfishness should be the most venerated of all human traits. From this it stands to reason that any man, knowing the total expanse of his existence to be finite, who does not devote every moment of his life to acts of pure selfishness,…

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

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