Quotes About Morality

Un jeune américain de ma connaissance, homme très-entendu, m'a certifié à Londres qu'un jeune enfant bien sain, bien nourri, est, à l'âge d'un an, un aliment délicieux, très-nourrissant et très-sain, bouilli, rôti, à l'étuvée ou au four, et je ne mets pas en doute qu'il ne puisse également servir en fricassée ou en ragoût.

Yo no tengo autoridad moral para juzgar a nadie; en mi vida he hecho muchas locuras por amor y quien sabe si hare mas antes de morirme. El amor es un rayo que nos golpea de subito y nos cambia.

He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse.

God is more generous than men and will measure them by a different standard.

Tearing money is an impiety, like throwing away bread.

En mi época no había Best-Sellers y no podíamos prostituírnos. No había quien comprara nuestra prostitución.

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to more atrocious undertakings; soon there will be no one but warriors and brigands; I give them this counsel: The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

some preached asceticism, others licentiousness. All preached confusion.

Parable follows on the heels of confession.

The ascetic, for the greater glory of God, degrades and mortifies the flesh; Judas did the same with the spirit. He renounced honor, good, peace, the Kingdom of Heaven, as others, less heroically, renounced pleasure.

Pensó que la felicidad, como el bien, es un atributo divino y que no deben usurparlo los hombres.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life.

Naturalmente, esas «loterías» fracasaron. Su virtud moral era nula. No se dirigían a todas las facultades del hombre: únicamente a su esperanza.

Si Dios no existe, todo es lícito. Si todo es lícito, sólo admitiré como norma para mí mis criterios de conveniencia. Si todo es lícito, nada es malo. Y si algo es malo, te fastidias.

en la confrontación entre el Bien y el Mal siempre se tiene la sensación de que el lado del Bien es débil, que está en inferioridad de condiciones.

El pecado, como la virtud, no depende de la naturaleza, sino, esencialmente, de la voluntad.

the intemperately wrathful man is less obnoxious than the intemperately lustful one, while the immoderate pleasure-seeker, intent on dissimulation and camouflage, is unable to give or take a straight look in the eye.

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise.

Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.

A bird may twitter a better song. But should you consider abortion wrong or that the quacks ask too high a fee, come to this wall, and see.