Morals proverbs

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◆ Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.

- Helen Simonson98

◆ How wonderful it would be if people did all they could for one other without seeking anything in return! One should never remember a kindness done, and never forget a kindness received.

- Kentetsu Takamori98

◆ Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

- Karl Lagerfeld98

◆ Never concede to evil…. When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.

- Dave Wolverton98

◆ People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it's all backwards. It's not that you do the right thing and hope it pays off; the morally right thing is by definition the thing that gives the biggest payoff.

- Tana French98

◆ While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of them, if you must make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, 'Look. Listen. Attend.

- C.S. Lewis98

◆ There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

- E.A. Bucchianeri98

◆ But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.

- Jostein Gaarder98

◆ He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals

- Henry Miller98

◆ At every period of history, people have believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you risked ostracism or even violence by saying otherwise. If our own time were any different, that would be remarkable. As far as I can tell it isn't.

- Paul Graham98

◆ If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

- Thomas Hardy98

◆ The end must justify the means.

- Matthew Prior98

◆ If you go looking for love you won't find it because love is never lost; only we are lost.

- Shannon L. Alder98

◆ Since its appearance the view that prostitution is a product of capitalism has gained ground enormously. And as, in addition, preachers still complain that the good old morals have decayed, and accuse modern culture of having led to loose living, everyone is convinced that all sexual wrongs represent a symptom of decadence peculiar to our age.

- Ludwig von Mises98

◆ As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.

- Alberto Manguel98