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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.