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“The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.”

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Nicolas Chamfort

Nicolas Chamfort, born on April 6, 1741, and died on April 13, 1794, was a prominent French writer and poet of the 18th century, known for his unique literary style and profound thoughts. more

“For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.”

Love Desire Opinion Virtue Greater Morality Perfection Stronger Police Deny Superiors Inferiors Blindness Public Opinion Being Thankful Criminality Greater Love

Book:Carlyle Reader

Source: Carlyle Reader

“Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of laws written on parchment, will be as vain as to put up printed notices in an orchard to keep off the canker-worms.”

Mind Law Force Effort Liberty Written Morality Paper Property Secure Vain Apples Worms Orchard Written On Paper

Author:Horace Mann

“I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.”

Character Home Peace Moral Morality Scene Flight Internals Back Home Moral Character Internal Peace

Author:Seneca the Younger

“There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.”

Emotion Morality Immoral Immorality

Book:The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

“For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.”

War Political Life Is Politics Morality Highest Cosmic Volunteer

Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality.”

People Mind Heart Growth Morality Safe Positive Atheism Superstitions Heart And Mind Detrimental

Book:Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

Source: Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

“The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.”

Virtue Morality

Author:James Anthony Froude

“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.”

Persons Art Beauty Moral Morality Intellectual Tendencies Artistic Decay Physical Beauty

Author:Susan Sontag

“He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.”

Ifs May Long Play Faces Hurt Moral Dog Tears Morality Please Very Good Your Face Throat Strokes Good Moral Mastiffs

Book:The Table-talk: Of John Selden, Esq. Being His Sense of Various Matters of Weight and High Consequence; Relating Especially to Religion and State

Source: The Table-talk: Of John Selden, Esq. Being His Sense of Various Matters of Weight and High Consequence; Relating Especially to Religion and State

“When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.”

Inspirational Lost Virtue Honor Morality Shadow Mere Disorder Enlightening Benevolence Expediency Deep Life Right Conduct Expedience

Author:Laozi

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