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I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. – Logan Pearsall Smith

Sometimes, to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top. – Frank Moore Colby

Values are good things only if they are good values. – Michael Josephson, whatwillmatter.com

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows. РJean Baptiste Moli̬re, Le Misanthrope

Conscience warns us before it reproaches us. – Comtesse Diane (Marie Josephine de Suin de Beausacq), Maximes de la vie, 1908

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us. – George Eliot, Adam Bede

As soon as you concern yourself with the “good” and “bad” of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. – Morihei Ueshiba

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul? – Socrates

Every human being has… an attendant spirit…. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. – Lydia M. Child

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. – Will Durant

Every man over forty is responsible for his face. – Abraham Lincoln

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, not forgetting to leave others be as you would have them leave you be. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thought under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. – Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1595

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging? – Mark Twain

You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient. – Bodie Thoene, Warsaw Requiem

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. – Mahatma Gandhi

A man may be born a jackass; but it is his business if he makes himself a double one. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)