Quotes About Morality

The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day.

unless wicked ideas take root in a naturally depraved mind, human nature, in a right and wholesome state, revolts at crime.

La felicidad hace buenos hasta a los malvados.

In any case, even the most corrupt of us finds it hard to believe in evil unless it is based on some interest. We reject the idea of harm done for no cause and without gain as anomalous.

Avoir commis, pour te posséder, rapt, violence et adultère, et, pour te conserver, hésiter devant un nouveau crime ?... perdre mon âme pour si peu ? Satan en rirait ; tu es folle ... Non ... non, tu es à moi comme l'homme est au malheur ....

Why does not God, if he really hates the wicked, as he is said to do, send down brimstone and fire, and consume them altogether?" "You

happiness makes even wicked men good, …

Some virtues, when taken to the extreme, become crimes.

At bottom the character of M. Bonacieux was one of profound selfishness mixed with sordid avarice, the whole seasoned with extreme cowardice.

We are often criminals in the eyes of the earth, not only for having committed crimes, but because we know that crimes have been committed.

a no nacer los malos pensamientos de una organización mala también, el crimen repugna a la naturaleza humana. Sin embargo, la civilización nos ha creado necesidades, vicios y falsos apetitos, cuya influencia llega tal vez a ahogar en nosotros los buenos instintos, arrastrándonos al mal.

unless an evil thought is born in a twisted mind, human nature is repelled by crime. However, civilization has given us needs, vices and artificial appetites which sometimes cause us to repress our good instincts and lead us to wrongdoing

Voi donne, viceversa, ben di rado siete tormentate dai rimorsi, giacché ben di rado la decisione origina da voi, le vostre sventure quasi sempre sono il crimine altrui.

that he perceived that people said the truth and that she had poisoned all her family; to which she replied, that if she had, it was only through following bad advice, and that one could not always be good.

Sainte-Croix, a strange mixture of qualities good and evil, had reached the supreme crisis of his life, when the powers of darkness or of light were to prevail. Maybe, if he had met some angelic soul at this point, he would have been led to God; he encountered a demon, who conducted him to Satan.

Danaro e santita, Meta della meta.

Ivrogne tant que tu le voudras ; tant pis pour ceux qui craignent le vin, c'est qu'ils ont quelque mauvaise pensée qu'ils craignent que le vin ne leur tire du cœur... Tous les méchants sont buveurs d'eau, C'est bien prouvé par le déluge.

that the sins of the fathers shall fall upon their children to the third and fourth generation. Since God himself dictated those words to his prophet, why should I seek to make myself better than God?

L'honneur, c'est le respect de ce que l'on doit aux autres, et surtout de ce qu'on se doit à soi-même.»

añadamos que, en aquellos tiempos de moral quebradiza, tampoco se avergonzaban de que sus amantes les regalaran con mucha frecuencia preciosos y perdurables recuerdos, como si tratasen de fortalecer la fragilidad de sus sentimientos con la solidez de sus presentes. Era

Non sapete - disse Porthos - che torcere il collo a quella dannata Milady sarebbe un peccato meno grave che torcerlo a quei poveri diavoli di ugonotti, che non hanno commesso altro delitto che quello di cantare in francese salmi che noi cantiamo in latino?».

that disinterestedness was the finest thing in the world.

el crimen repugna a la naturaleza humana. Sin embargo, la civilización nos ha creado necesidades, vicios y falsos apetitos, cuya influencia llega tal vez a ahogar en nosotros los buenos instintos, arrastrándonos al mal.

crimes, but because we know that crimes have