People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got. Everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.
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Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good. It is vain to exclaim against the depravity of human nature on this account; the fact is so, the experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure, change the constitution of man, before we can make it otherwise. No institution, not built on the presumptive truth of these maxims can succeed.
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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
This truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.
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