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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness
Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time
To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason
To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine
Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest
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