Quotes About Morality

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.

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To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.

Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

Keeping the commandments . . . is at once a demonstration of our intelligence, our knowledge, our character, and our wisdom.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.

Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.

Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good.

In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.

Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.

Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.

Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any time. It is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.

Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.