The distinction between right and wrong (“la distinction du bien et du mal”, Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable) opposition.
AFRIKAN SPIRBesides the progress of industry and technique, we see a growing discontent among the masses; we see, besides the expansion (“expansion,”, Fr.) of instruction, distrust and hatred expanding among nations (“s’étendre la méfiance et la haine entre,” Fr.).
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Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have failed too much to appreciate, and that which would be fatal to fail to appreciate any longer (“pluslongtemps”, Fr.).
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Experience shows that what great role pratice and experience play in education; pratice, the prolonged exercice lead to habit: exemple suggests imitation.
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The more gifted by nature is a man, the more is deplorable the abuse that he does by using them to shameful ends.
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It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish (“pourront être édifiées”, Fr.) the real basis of morality.
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A good man (“un homme de bien”, Fr.) never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives (or survives) in eternity.
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To sacrifice the moral to the physical, as is done in these days, is to sacrifice reality for a shadow.
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True morality, true philosophy and true art are in their essence (“dans leur essence”, Fr.) religious.”
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In life we only try to produce, to win, and enjoy the more we can; in science, to discoverand invent the more we can; in religion, to dominate (or rule over) on the greatest number of people we can; whereas the forming of the character.
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For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display (or deployment) of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure (or enjoyment).
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Infringing upon (or encroaching) the right of a single person, we overthrow (or turn upside down) the whole order on which rest legal agreements; for if we break (or transgress or violate).
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A swindler (or crook) of higher condition is more blameworthy than a vulgar scoundrel.
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The fact that men have a same origin and live in the same universe means that they are representatives of a same unity.
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Nothing that rest on some contradictory basis shall succeed or last in the long run (“ne saurait réussir ou durer, à la longue”, Fr.); all that involve (or imply…) a contradiction is fatally destined, early or late, to disintegrate and disappear.
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The divine element manifests itself (or show up) in man as well by his aptitude for science, than by his aptitude for virtue.
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The only one thing which is really valuable, it is to do good.
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