Quotes About Morality

On the contrary, Augustine says (Enchiridion 14) that "evil exists only in good.

Unde omnis lex humanitus posita intantum habet de ratione legis, inquantum a lege naturae derivatur. Si vero in aliquo a lege naturali discordet, iam non erit lex sed legis corruptio.

On the contrary, The Philosopher says (Ethic. ix, 8): "Love for others comes of love for oneself.

The root of liberty is the will as the subject thereof; but it is the reason as its cause. For the will can tend freely towards various objects precisely because the reason can have various perceptions of the good. Hence, philosophers define free-decision as being a free judgment arising from reason, implying that reason is the cause of liberty.

But there are more wicked men to be found than good; according to Eccles. 1:15: "The number of fools is infinite.

God is not offended except by our acting contrary to our own good

Three things are required for a war to be just. Indeed, the first requirement is that the ruler at whose command the war is to be waged have the lawful authority to do so. . . . Second, there needs to be a just cause to wage war, namely, that the enemy deserve to have war waged against it because of some wrong it has inflicted. . . . Third, those waging war need to have a right intention, namely, an intention to promote good and avoid evil.

Hence it is predicated chiefly of the virtuous; then of the pleasant; and lastly of the useful.

The rich do not act improperly if they before others take possession of property that was in the beginning common and share the property with others. But the rich sin if they indiscriminately prevent others from using the property.

Good can exist without evil whereas evil cannot exist without good.

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

To sin is to fall short of a perfect action; hence to be able to sin is to be able to fall short in action, which is repugnant to omnipotence.

Religion, then, is not limited to our relation to God, but embraces, our neighbour as well.

yet so that envy is not to be taken for a passion, but for a will resisting the good of another.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

The measure of a man's real character is what he will do if he knew he would never be found out.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.

with that very large part of mankind who have religion enough to make them uneasy when they do wrong, and not religion enough to keep them from doing wrong, he followed a very different system.

God hath not called us that we should be unclean, but holy and virtuous.

like all wicked people he could do things which defied the means of honest men, for evil is always more easily managed than virtue.)

The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater.

Greater sins do sooner startle the soul, and awaken and rouse up the soul to repentance, than lesser sins do. Little sins often slide into the soul, and breed, and work secretly and undiscernably in the soul, till they come to be so strong, as to trample upon the soul, and to cut the throat of the soul.

There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.

There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.