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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.