Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
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To be worthy of the name, he must be free of two things the force of tradition and tyranny of his own passions.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject.
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