“It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. He takes up the trade of the priest, and in order to qualify himself for that trade, he begins with a perjury. Can we conceive any thing more destructive to morality than this?”
From Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason. Colloquially known as to “walk your talk”. No matter how it is expressed, the point Thomas Paine makes is to live what you truly believe, and not what is convenient or merely a means to an end; but the foundation of how you live.
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