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10 ideas
120 | Should we avoid evil because it will bring us bad consequences? [Plato] |
118 | I would rather be a victim of crime than a criminal [Plato] |
4274 | The modern virtues are courage, prudence, wisdom, temperance, justice, charity and loyalty [Scruton] |
131 | If absence of desire is happiness, then nothing is happier than a stone or a corpse [Plato] |
140 | Self-indulgent desire makes friendship impossible, because it makes a person incapable of co-operation [Plato] |
119 | A criminal is worse off if he avoids punishment [Plato] |
4286 | Only just people will drop their own self-interests when faced with an impartial verdict [Scruton] |
129 | Do most people praise self-discipline and justice because they are too timid to gain their own pleasure? [Plato] |
4283 | Sympathy can undermine the moral order just as much as crime does [Scruton] |
4320 | The popular view is that health is first, good looks second, and honest wealth third [Plato] |