I serendipitously ran across this quote I'd saved:
"Acts and their consequences are the things by which our fellows judge us.
Anything else, and all that you get is a cheap feeling of moral superiority by
thinking how you would have done something nicer if it had been you."
~Corwin of Amber (Robert Silverberg)
(It's probably someone's sig right here in the forum, but I don't know for sure)
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