Quotes About Morality

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

But for disloyalty to her husband a wife is censured among men, and ,in her next life she is born in the womb of a jackal and tormented by diseases, the punishment of her sin.

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

We are most like beasts when we kill. We are most like men when we judge. We are most like God when we forgive.

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

All men are born good.

When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.

As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.

Look-ye, 'tis my Opinion, ev'ry Man cheats in his Way. And he is only honest, who is not discover'd.

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.

The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate.