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Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men. ↗

— Andre Weil

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To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny. ↗

— Simone Weil

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Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

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I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum. ↗

— William Weld

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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. ↗

— Edith Wharton

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Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops. ↗

— Gilbert White

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Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches. ↗

— George Whitefield

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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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