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"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
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"Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?"
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"...Virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence."
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For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.
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“We cannot ever practice any virtue—that is to say, do what our reason tells us we should do—without receiving satisfaction and pleasure from doing so”
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"The said truth is that is it the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of the right and wrong."
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"Do the right thing because it is right."
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"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inactions\, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."
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"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."
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"Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose."
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"But to die to escape from poverty or love or anything painful is not the mark of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is softness to fly from what is troublesome,"
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“So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.”
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"moral judgments do not state any sort of fact, but rather express the moral emotions of the speaker and attempt to influence others."
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“The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.”
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“At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.”