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Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

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We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

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Having knowledge of an unethical act and allowing it to continue can spread a contagion that can affect multiple beings in society

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I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious--for instance, the nuns who never take a bath without wearing a bathrobe...more

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When a child reaches adolescence, there is very apt to be a conflict between parents and child, since the latter considers himself to be by now quite ...more

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So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, i...more

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[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

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That is the idea -- that we should all be wicked if we did not hold to the Christian religion. It seems to me that the people who have held to it have...more