With malice toward none; with charity for all.
“With malice toward none; with charity for all.”
“A man is worthy of praise or blame solely on account of those actions which lie within his power to do or not to do.”
“Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.”
“When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.”
“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.”
“The law of nature is, do the thing, and you shall have the power: but they who do not the thing have not the power.”
“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
“A man does what he must—in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures—and that is the basis of all human morality.”
“Don’t ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.”
“Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one makes you but even with him; forgiving, it sets you above him.”
“A Truth thats told with bad intent Beats all the Lies you can invent.”
“Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its law, and conduct you to a higher degree of power. You must obey your heart.”
“Who will let you? That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
“Vice knows she’s ugly, so puts on her mask.”
“Any man more right than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one already.”
“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that have not wit enough to be honest.”
“All things truly wicked start from an innocence.”
“The law holds with equal sureness for all right action. Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.”
“ As human beings, we are endowed with this freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us. ”
“People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked.”
“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.”
“No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.”
“You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. It you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?”
“Every thing has two sides, a good and an evil. Every advantage has its tax.”
“It is better to take many injuries, than to give one.”
“Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.”
“You don’t need to take the last dollar.”
“A little integrity is better than any career.”
“Bad gains are truly losses.”
“For of those to whom much is given, much is required.”
“For what are we born if not to aid one another?”
“Without justice courage is weak.”
“Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.”
“Desire in our age is simultaneously sinful and boring, because it desires what belongs to the neighbor.”
“Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away? And if it is not moral for you to keep a value, why is it moral for others to accept it? If you are selfless and virtuous when you give it, are they not selfish and vicious when they take it?”
“You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.”
“We cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individual. Toward this end, each of us must work toward his own highest development, accepting at the same time his share of responsibility in the general life of humanity—our particular duty being to help those to whom we feel we can be most useful.”
“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.”
“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”
“I have adhered to my rule of never criticizing any measure of war or policy after the event unless I had before expressed publicly or formally my opinion or warning about it.”
“It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right.”
“There is neither honor nor gain got in dealing with a villian.”
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”
“For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done for ever.”
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors.”
“An innocent plowman is more worthy than a vicious prince.”
“Ask advice of him who governs himself well.”
“Virtue and happiness are mother and daughter.”
“Nothing so popular as goodness.”
“To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.”
“I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed, and had done the very best you could.”
“The bell calls others to church, but itself never minds the sermon.”
“Don’t misinform your doctor nor your lawyer.”
“The honest man takes pains, and then enjoys pleasures; the knave takes pleasures, and then suffers pains.”
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
“As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle silence.”
“The noblest question in the world is, what good may I do in it?”
“You may be too cunning for one, but not for all.”
“Threats alone are the weapons of the threatened man.”
“We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as the scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution.”
“Do not do that which you would not have known.”
“You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.”
“Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.”
“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
“If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.”
“When you’re good to others, you are best to yourself.”
“The gain to the winner is, in some odd way, always less than the loss to the loser.”
“White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.”
“No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.”
“Having the ability also means accepting the duty”
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