High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.
Indulgence in frivolous speech not only reveals one's lack of moral character, but it deprives him of good qualities also.
Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.
He was as great as a man can be without morality.
You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
A nation cannot be truly great without a moral compass.
If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.
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