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Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality.

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If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.
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The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.
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The feeling (sens, Fr.) of solidarity that is born amidst a community rest on the feeling of antagonism arouse (aroused ? arose ?... sorry, - suscité, Fr.) by those who are opposed to it. Most of the time we only adhere to a party or a group, in order to better (or more, - pour mieux se, Fr.) differentiate ourselves of another.
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In the actual state of social relationships, the forms (formes, Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.
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Men who have sacrifice their well-being, and even their lives, for the cause of truth or the public good, are, from an empirical point of view - which scorn (fait fi, Fr.) virtue and altruism - regarded as insane or fools but, from a moral standpoint, they are heros who do honour (qui honorent, Fr.) humanity.
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