I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

~ Aristotle

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Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.

~ Jeremy Bentham

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A man’s character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.

~ Paul Eldridge

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I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another, and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.

~ Thomas Paine

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Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.

~ Al-Maʿarri

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The only crime is pride.

~ Sophocles

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In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.

~ John Quincy Adams

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