Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.

Keep extending hand for friendship. Those alive will grip yours with theirs, while the morally dead will inflate; rubbing their own palms.

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.

That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.

One enjoys the good things more to the extent that one goes to them after having labored in advance, for labors are a sauce for good things

He sells his loyalties to the highest bidder. Shouldn’t even a mercenary have morals? That’s the textbook definition of a whore!

Till it does come, you know, we women never mean to have anybody. It is a thing of course among us, that every man is refused, till he offers.

{We} have not to crown the exceptional man who knows he can rule; rather we must crown the much more exceptional man who knows he can’t.

Tomorrow's world can not exist without morals, without faith and memory. Cynicism, narrow interests and cowardice must not occupy our lives.

Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another. I'm more than fine with breaking a law if it disagrees with my values and morals.

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

Modernization, socialization, and progression doesn’t alter nor permit discarding the morals and the laws one should abide themselves too.

If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.