A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
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Don't worry so much about your self esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
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Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality. No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence. Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing that we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions Let us examine the question.
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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame, A grave to rest in, and a fading name.
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Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
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Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward.
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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed, What then? Is the reward of virtue bread?
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The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.
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Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.
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Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
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Happiness is not a reward it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment it is a result.
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Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
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For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
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At that instant he saw, in one blaze of light, an image of unutterable conviction, the reason why the artist works and lives and has his being the reward he seeks the only reward he really cares about, without which there is nothing. It is to snare the
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An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
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Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
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Love is love's reward.
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Love seeks one thing only the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
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A comfortable old age is the reward of a wellspent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
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Nature ever yields reward To him who seeks, and loves her best.
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