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## Henry Adams quotes on ethics

1. > Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.

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2. > Morality is a private and costly luxury.

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3. > Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

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4. > No historian can take part with- or against- the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

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5. > Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

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