Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".

Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.

I came, I saw, she conquered." The original Latin seems to have been garbled.

Life is short, but the years are long.

Almost everything about a human creature is ridiculous, except its ability to suffer bravely and die gallantly for whatever it loves and believes in. The validity of that belief, the appropriateness of that love, is irrelevant; it is the bravery and the gallantry that count.

If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off?