Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is
patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is
to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.
~ Mark Twain
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
~
Baltasar Gracian
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
~
Thomas Paine
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
~
Léon Blum
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine.
The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.
~ Albert Einstein
I'll tell you a big secret, my friend: Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.
~
Albert Camus
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
~
Doug Larson
Take care that no one hates you justly.
~
Publilius Syrus
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
~ Mark Twain
A healthy mind has an easy breath.
~
Author Unknown
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
~
Harper Lee
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
~
Harper Lee
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
~
Harper Lee
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
~ Buddha
'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.
~
Thomas Fuller
The time is always right to do what is right.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.
~
Thomas Fuller
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
~
La Rochefoucaulde
Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest
amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?
~ Socrates
Every human being has... an attendant spirit.... If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
~
Lydia M. Child
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners --
your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
~
Thornton Wilder
Conscience warns us before it reproaches us.
~
Comtesse Diane
Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.
~
Pablo Casals
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
~
Thomas Hardy
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
~
Will Durant
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
~
William Faulkner
He was a thinker, political figure, educator, and founder of the Ru School of Chinese thought.
Known to the Chinese as Master Kong and to the rest of the world as Confucius, he created a philosophy
based on virtue and believed in honesty, respect, sincerity.
Confucius taught that it was not the satisfaction of the senses in the present moment that would bring true
happiness, but well-planned actions and the helping of fellow man which mattered most.
(551-479 BCE)
History is the lie commonly agreed upon.
~ Voltaire
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
~ Dante Alighieri
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
~ Abraham LincolnMore Proverbs
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