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It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.
- Cicero
Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.
- Joseph Addison
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
- George Washington
Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly
- Samuel Johnson
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
- Samuel Johnson
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well -- he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.
- Drew Barrymore
Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.
- Ayn Rand
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
- Pope John Paul II
When you are tempted to compromise your integrity, remember than an opportunity isn't an opportunity if you have to compromise your integrity.
- Mark Batterson
When we enter into a covenant relationship with God, we tend to focus on the fact that we are legally and morally bound to God, but God is also legally and morally bound to us. The gospel demands that we give all of ourselves to God, but when we do, God gives all of Himself to us.
- Mark Batterson