Quotes About Morality

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Don't do it for yourself, do it for someone, and someday, someone else does it to you, karma's real.

Ustedes recuerdan lo que dijo Jesucristo? Que más fácil será que un camello entre por el ojo de una aguja que un rico entre al Reino de los Cielos. —El auditorio celebra. Él continúa—: Nosotros no queremos ser ricos. ¡Ser rico es malo! Es inhumano, así lo digo, y condeno a los ricos.

Gran parte de la clase media y hasta gente de la más alta alcurnia también simpatizan con el discurso regenerador de la moral pública que el líder disemina por todos los medios de comunicación.

Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

Displaying vice to the mockery of men deals it a great blow. Men put up with admonition but are loath to be mocked. One might be willing to be wicked; one cannot bear to appear foolish.

Evil exists only when its known. Adam and Eve were public in their fall. To sin in private is not to sin at all

No, you shall be, my faith! Tartuffified.

The public scandal is what brings offence, And secret sinning is not sin at all.

l'hypocrisie est un vice à la mode, et tous les vices à la mode passent pour vertus.

What! Just because a rascal boldly duped you With pompous show of false austerity, Must you needs have it everybody's like him, And no one's truly pious nowadays?

TARTUFFE. If Heaven is all that stands now in my way, I'll easily remove that little hindrance; Your heart need not hold back for such a trifle.

ELMIRE. But they affright us so with Heaven's commands! TARTUFFE. I can dispel these foolish fears, dear madam; I know the art of pacifying scruples Heaven forbids, 'tis true, some satisfactions; But we find means to make things right with Heaven.

Mais, supposé, comme il est vrai, que les exercices de la piété souffrent des intervelles et que les hommes aient besoin de divertissement, je soutiens qu'on ne leur en peut trouver un qui soit plus innocent que la comédie.

If all hearts were candid, just, and tractable, most of our virtues would be useless to us, inasmuch as their functions are to bear, without annoyance, the injustice of others in our good cause; and just in the same way as a heart full of virtue

On n'a plus qu'à commettre tous les crimes imaginables, tromper, voler, assassiner, et dire pour excuse qu'on y a été poussé par la destinée.

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.

Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.