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The best proof of love is trust.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation…nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

The more laws, the less justice.

Universal brotherhood under the fatherhood of God.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

An enlightened society is one where all people – the rich and the poor, the literate and the illiterate, the black and the white, men and women – live happily as children of the same Lord. Thus experiencing the brotherhood of men under the fatherhood of God.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

I do not believe that a man should be restrained in his daily actions by being afraid of punishment after death or that he should do things only because in this way he will be rewarded after he dies. This does not make sense. The proper guidance during the life of a man should be the weight that he puts upon ethics and the amount of consideration that he has for others.

Today, the fundamental global objective of all education aspiring not only to progress but to the survival of humanity is to Civilize and Unify the Earth and Transform the human species into genuine humanity The education of the future should teach an ethics of planetary understanding.

Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.

The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view that all sexual intercourse, even within marriage, is regrettable. A view of this sort, which goes against biological facts, can only be regarded by sane people as a morbid aberration. The fact that it is embedded in Christian ethics has made Christianity throughout its whole history a force tending towards mental disorders and unwholesome views of life.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world. If the world is a theophany , then everything done by man, and even by animal, is equally divine and excellent; nothing can be more censurable and nothing more praiseworthy than anything else; hence there is no ethics.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man’s ethical behavior.

Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it’s going faster and faster, but we don’t know where.

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.

We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace.