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If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.
~ Leo Tolstoy ~












If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. ...
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