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“Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should not intermeddle with the particular dogmas in which all religions differ, and which are totally unconnected with morality.”

Should Reading Interest Moral Particular Bears Morality Reflection Murder Agree Convinced Stealing Observation Witness Dogma Plunder False Witness

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.”

Should Done Morality Please Ethics These Days Favour Morality And Ethics

Author:Plautus

“One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.”

Should Reason Dog Morality Court Sufficient Quarrels

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.”

Should Leader Moral Morality Self Control Imposing

Book:Ferraro: My Story

Source: Ferraro: My Story

“Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes.”

Source: A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works