Quotes About Morality

Lo mío es obedecer a la ley y abogar por mi causa.

in a family there may be several brothers, and the bad may be a majority; and when the bad majority conquer the good minority, the family are worse than themselves.

But why, my dear Crito, should we care about the opinion of the many? Good men, and they are the only persons who are worth considering, will think of these things truly as they occurred.

The unjust man enjoys life better than the just. book 2

he really meant to say that justice is the giving to each man what is proper to him, and this he termed a debt.

Hay en un Estado señal más segura de una mala y viciosa educación que la necesidad de médicos y de jueces hábiles no sólo para los artesanos y pueblo bajo, sino también para los que se precian de haber sido educados como hombres libres? ¿No es cosa vergonzosa y una prueba insigne de ignorancia el verse forzado a acudir a una justicia extraña por no ser uno mismo justo, y el convertir a los demás en dueños y jueces de su derecho?

El hombre de bien tan pronto es malo, tan pronto bueno.

Los Estados para ser dichosos no tienen necesidad de murallas, ni de buques, ni de arsenales, ni de tropas, ni de gran aparato; la única cosa de que tienen necesidad para su felicidad es la virtud.

los viciosos no pueden hacerse viciosos, sin que antes hayan sido virtuosos.

Always seek wisdom and live a vrituous life.

No sale de las riquezas la virtud para los hombres, sino de la virtud, las riquezas y todos los otros bienes, tanto los privados como los públicos.

Other sort of training, which aims at the acquisition of wealth or bodily strength, or mere cleverness apart from intelligence and justice, is mean and illiberal, and is not worthy to be called education at all.

justice is the giving to each man what is proper to him

The only thing he ought to consider, if he does anything, is whether he does right or wrong , whether it is what a good man does or a bad man.

This they affirm to be the origin and nature of justice;--it is a mean or compromise, between the best of all, which is to do injustice and not be punished, and the worst of all

It is by justice that we can authentically measure a mans value or nullity.... the absence of justice is the absence of what makes him a man

I throw this apple before you. Take it—if you love me purely, and give up your virginity. Yet if you will not love me keep the apple—and think how long the beauty lasts.

because he is just; moreover he is hated by his friends and acquaintance for refusing to serve them in unlawful ways.

La mayor perfección en la injusticia es parecer justo sin serlo." (Platón, República)

Matilah dengan iradat, tetapi hiduplah dengan tabiat.

Lo que no es ni malo ni bueno es, pues, amigo de lo bueno por [b] causa de lo malo y de lo odioso, y con vistas a un bien amigo.

Always seek wisdom and live a virtuous life.

Nothing will injure me, not Meletus nor yet Anytus—they cannot, for a bad man is not permitted to injure a better than himself.

POLUS: What! and does all happiness consist in this? SOCRATES: Yes, indeed, Polus, that is my doctrine; the men and women who are gentle and good are also happy, as I maintain, and the unjust and evil are miserable.