When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.
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Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
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We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.
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However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
