Quotes About Morality

Conscience is a God to all mortals.

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and knowledge are not infused into us from without.

Benevolence is man's mind, and righteousness is man's path.

Sincerity is the way of Heaven.

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

Benevolence is the tranquil habitation of man, and righteousness is his straight path.

There is no attribute of the superior man greater than his helping men to practice virtue.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

The superior man will not manifest either narrow-mindedness or the want of self-respect.

From the feelings proper to it, [man's nature] is constituted for the practice of what is good.

Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.

The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute, he simply speaks and does what is right.

There's no such thing as `one, true way'; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they're the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren't willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Character determines fate.

He who devises evil for another falls at last into his own pit, and the most cunning finds himself caught by what he had prepared for another. But virtue without guile, erect like the lofty palm, rises with greater vigour when it is oppressed.

do things because you think it's right not because others do.

Cada um descobre o seu anjo tendo um caso com o demónio.

Ele já tinha visto os homens. E aqueles não eram diferentes dos que conhecera antes. Começamos por pensar que são heróis. Em seguida, aceitamos que são patriotas. Mais tarde, que são homens de negócios. Por fim, que não passam de ladrões.

Houve um tempo em que pensei poder mudar esse mundo. Mas hoje desisti. Aquele é um corpo que está vivo graças à sua própria doença. Vive do crime, se alimenta de imoralidade.

E pergunto: por que nos ensinaram essa merda de sermos humanos? Seria melhor sermos bichos, tudo instinto. Podemos violar, morder, matar. Sem culpa, sem juízo, sem perdão. A desgraça é esta: só uns poucos aprenderam a lição da humanidade.

Las fábulas me han enseñado, durante toda mi vida, a distinguir lo verdadero de lo falso, a discernir el bien del mal. En una palabra, fueron los animales los que empezaron a hacerme humana.

I'm going to take the high road because the low road is so crowded.