Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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Oscar Wilde
The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned
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Antonio Gramsci
A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
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Mencius
Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing, ' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.
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Frank Herbert
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That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.
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When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.
That no man can truly imagine being happy and that's why happiness isn't for sale here.
