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It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!
James Fenimore Cooper1789–1851The Last of the Mohicans (1826), Chapter VIIIIn context
- Life & Death
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For him who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man’s nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712–1778The Social Contract (1762), Book I, Chapter IVIn context
- Liberty
I have been Heaven’s substitute to recompense the good⁠—now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), Volume Two, Chapter 30In context
- Good & Evil
- Justice
Compassion is the chief law of human existence.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Idiot (1869), Part II, Chapter VIn context
I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)In context
- Good & Evil
Heaven forbids, ’tis true, some satisfactions;
But we find means to make things right with Heaven.
Molière1622–1673Tartuffe (1664–1669), Act IV, Scene V, spoken by TartuffeIn context
- Religion
The public scandal is what brings offence,
And secret sinning is not sin at all.
Molière1622–1673Tartuffe (1664–1669), Act IV, Scene V, spoken by TartuffeIn context
- Truth & Lies
The world is not destroyed by villains and conflagrations, but by hate and malice and all this spiteful tattling.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Uncle Vanya (1897), Act II, spoken by HelenaIn context
- Anger
- Good & Evil
I am in a chaos of principles⁠—groping in the dark⁠—acting by instinct and not after example. Eight or nine years ago when I came here first, I had a neat stock of fixed opinions, but they dropped away one by one; and the further I get the less sure I am.
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Jude the Obscure (1895), Part Sixth: At Christminster Again, Chapter IIn context
- Experience
The battle between good and evil is a legitimate theme for a Fantasy (or for any work of fiction, for that matter), but in real life that battle is fought chiefly in the individual human heart.
George R. R. Martinborn 1948infinity plus interview (2001)
- Good & Evil
- Writing
I’m for decency — period. I’m for anything and everything that bodes love and consideration for my fellow man.
Frank Sinatra1915–1998Playboy interview (1963)
- Love
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
The Bible (King James Version)Psalms (1611), Psalm 1:1 (KJV)In context
- Good & Evil
- Virtue
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
The Bible (King James Version)Proverbs 12:10 (KJV)In context
- Animals
- Good & Evil
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
The Bible (King James Version)Proverbs 14:34 (KJV)In context
- Virtue
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
The Bible (King James Version)Proverbs 28:1 (KJV)In context
- Courage
- Good & Evil