Sixth Magnitude

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“Thou shalt not kill.”
—Bible: Hebrew Exodus, 20:13.

The sixth commandment.

“Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)