#piety

Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith. ↗

— King Hussein I

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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice. ↗

— Abu Bakr

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If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny. ↗

— Mary Douglas

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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. ↗

— Edward Fitzgerald

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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage. ↗

— Moliere

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I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service." ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety. ↗

— Plato

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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it. ↗

— Omar Khayyam

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Oaths are the fossils of piety. ↗

— George Santayana

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