Quotes About Morality

The man deserved his fate, deny it who can; yes, but the fate did not deserve the man.

If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it.

Pleasure is the bait of sin

On the virtuous man] He combines the highest, lowest and middle chords in complete harmony within himself.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue.

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.

The evil never attains to any real friendship, either with good or evil.

And will life be worth having, if that higher part of man be destroyed, which is improved by justice and depraved by injustice?

The best is to do injustice without paying the penalty; the worst is to suffer it without being able to take revenge. Justice is a mean between these two extremes. People value it not because it is a good but because they are too weak to do injustice with impunity.

We've heard many people say and have often said ourselves that justice is doing one's own work and not meddling with what isn't one's own ... Then, it turns out that this doing one's own work-provided that it comes to be in a certain way-is justice.

Socrates: I'm afraid that it might actually be sacrilegious to stand idly by while morality is being denigrated and not try to assist as long as one has breath in one's body and a voice to protest with.

I say that justice is nothing other than the advantage of [c] the stronger.

For no man is voluntarily bad; but the bad become bad by reason of an ill disposition of the body and bad education, things which are hateful to every man and happen to him against his will.

The author's Socrates admonishes paramount awareness human limitations. If we do good to those we evaluate as good and evil to those we evaluate at the evil, and we are wrong, we have been made the world less just.

If you harm a horse do you make him better or worse? Worse.

For our discussion is about no ordinary matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.

kata-kata tanpa ketulusan bukan hanya buruk, tapi juga merusak jiwa

if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his action, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting life a good or a bad man.

For he who is a corrupter of the laws is more than likely to be a corrupter of the young and foolish portion of mankind.

So I spoke the truth when I said that neither I nor you nor any other man would rather do injustice than suffer it: for it is worse.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.