
“In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.”
Lucifer's Hammer (1985)
“In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.”
Lucifer's Hammer (1985)
Source: Speech at Kansas State University (11 March 1996)
IX, 40
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IX
Context: Why dost thou not pray... to give thee the faculty of not fearing any of the things which thou fearest, or of not desiring any of the things which thou desirest, or not being pained at anything, rather than pray that any of these things should not happen or happen?
“When it's for each other that people give things up they don't miss them.”
Book VI, ch. III
The Ambassadors (1903)
“If you give yourself that short little moment of thinking, then you cannot miss it.”
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