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"There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative." »Karl Popper
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"The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military." »William Orville Douglas
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""There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation."" »Herbert Spencer
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"pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way." »A. Lawrence Lowell
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"The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men." »John Randolph
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"pleasure, most often delusive, may be born of delusion. pleasure, herself a sorceress, may pitch her tents on enchanted ground. But happiness (or, to use a more accurate and comprehensive term, solid well-being) can be built on virtue alone, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation." »Coleridge
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"Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure." »Sol Hurok
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"Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure." »Sol Hurok
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"We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose." »Charles Baudelaire
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"None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life." »James Goldsmith
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"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community." »Albert Einstein
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"Envy is a vice that would pose a man to tell what it should be liked for. Other vices we assume for that we falsely suppose they bring us either pleasure, profit, or honour. But in envy who is it can find any of these? Instead of pleasure, we vex and gall ourselves. Like cankered brass, it only eats itself, nay, discolours and renders it noisome. When some one told Agis that those of his neighbour?s family did envy him, ?Why, then,? says he, ?they have a double vexation?one, with their own evil, the other, at my prosperity.?" »Feltham
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"The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure." »Hermann Hesse
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"To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle." »Confucius
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"The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure." »Michel de Montaigne
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"A precedent embalms a principle." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want." »Joseph Wood Krutch
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"It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies." »Arthur Calwell
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"We talk on principle, but we act on interest." »Walter Savage Landor
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"Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act." »Claude A. Helvetius
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"The time has come for all good men to rise above principle." »Huey Long
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"I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility." »Everett Dirksen
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"As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything." »George Carlin
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"Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not." »Henry Fielding
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"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency." »James Webb
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"So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world." »Immanuel Kant
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"Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle." »Epictetus
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"Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething." »Mark Twain
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