I have always found that so-called bad people gain in one’s estimation when one gets to know them. better, and good people decline.
Quotes
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works.
The power of man’s virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doings.
We become just by doing just acts, prudent by doing prudent acts, brave by doing brave acts
The moral self is a self always haunted by the suspicion that it is not moral enough.
I must always act in such a way that I can at the same time will that the maxim by which I act should become a universal law.
The specific meaning of God depends on what is the most desirable good for a person.
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
None ought to be lords or landlords over another but the earth is free for every son and daughter of mankind to live free upon
It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.