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The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of noth

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy. – Goethe

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The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

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Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work. – Llewelyn Powys

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Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. – Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1875

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It is with flowers, as with moral qualities: the bright-coloured are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet-smelling. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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