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Piety and corruption go together like hot dogs and mustard. They h

Piety and corruption go together like hot dogs and mustard. They have to. No one can fulfill the demands of piety; as a daily demand, it is inhuman. So it inspires the opposite—just for the sheer health of the body, if not the soul. – Norman Mailer, “Primitive Man, Art and Science, Evil and Judgment,” The Spooky A

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There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent. – Charles Baudelaire

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The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. – Aristotle

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Modesty and unselfishness – these are virtues which men praise – and pass by. – André Maurois, Ariel, 1924

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