Quotes About Morality

had it been given to our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the consciences of others, we should be able to judge a man much more surely according to what he dreams, than according to what he thinks.

La honradez de un gran corazón, condensada en justicia y en verdad, fulmina.

Cometer la menor cantidad de pecados posibles es la ley del hombre. No cometer ninguno es el sueño del ángel.

As cidades produzem homens ferozes, porque produzem homens corruptos.

In a calm and even situation, Thenardier possessed all that is required to make—we will not say to be—what people have agreed to call an honest trader, a good bourgeois. At the same time certain circumstances being given, certain shocks arriving to bring his under-nature to the surface, he had all the requisites for a blackguard. He was a shopkeeper in whom there was some taint of the monster.

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

Pecar o menos possível é a lei dos homens. Não pecar nunca é sonho de anjos. Tudo o que é da terra está sujeito ao pecado. O pecado é uma gravitação.

Ma non basta essere cattivi, per prosperare.

Jamais entre os animais a criatura nascida para ser pomba converte-se em abutre. Isso só se vê entre os homens.

After a pause he added: My friends remember this:There is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man.There are only bad cultivators.

Et quoi qu'il fit, il retombait toujours sur ce poignant dilemme qui était au fond de sa rêverie : - rester dans le paradis et y devenir démon ! rentrer dans l'enfer et y devenir ange !

Was it not the least that one could do to swear at one's ease and revile the name of God a little, on so fine a day, in such good company as dignitaries of the church and loose women?

No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

Chi vuole restar virtuosa non deve aver compassione per le sue mani.

It was having rosy nails that were too pretty which had drawn Dahlia to Listolier, to others perhaps, to idleness. How could she make such nails work? She who wishes to remain virtuous must not have pity on her hands. As for Zephine, she had conquered Fameuil by her roguish and caressing little way of saying Yes, sir.

To feed the people is a fine goal, massacring them is the wrong way to go about it.

Jean Valjean had this peculiarity, that he carried, as one might say, two beggar's pouches: in one he kept his saintly thoughts; in the other the redoubtable talents of a convict. He rummaged in the one or the other, according to circumstances.

Te diré su nombre y el mío: él se llama Crimen y yo Castigo

Mr. Lundberg: "I asked you for your position on capital punishment." Student: "Prone.

Don't think about who they [the Nazis] are. Think about who you are and what sacrifices you can live with and what will break you [Mother Superior to Vianne].

Vianne didn't hesitate. She knew now that no one could be neutral—not anymore—and as afraid as she was of risking Sophie's life, she was suddenly more afraid of letting her daughter grow up in a world where good people did nothing to stop evil, where a good woman could turn her back on a friend in need.

She knew now that no one could be neutral - not anymore - and as afraid as she was of risking Sophie's life, she was suddenly more afraid of letting her daughter grow up in a world where good people did nothing to stop evil, where a good woman could turn her back on a friend in need.

We have to try to save him or we are as bad as they are," she

It didn't feel right. Wasn't lying always wrong? And an omission like this was obviously a lie.