“ As you say of yourself, I too am an . I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.[] Thomas Jefferson
“ I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“ Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish… Jeremy Bentham
“ In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do. John Quincy Adams
“ Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same. Al-Maʿarri
“ A man’s character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate. Paul Eldridge
“ I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law. Aristotle
