Quotes About Morality

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. All other Life is living Death, a world where none but Phantoms dwell, A breath, a wind, a sound, a voice, a tinkling of the camel-bell.

To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.

There is no road or ready way to virtue.

They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!

Oh, what tangled webs we weave, When we first practice to deceive.

The king, moreover, is not only incapable of doing wrong, but even of thinking wrong: he can never mean to do an improper thing: in him is no folly or weakness.

The Law is the true embodimentOf everything that's excellent.It has no kind of fault or flaw,And I, my Lords, embody the Law.

My object all sublimeI shall achieve in time—To let the punishment fit the crime.

I'm not sure that love is an excuse for everything

His sense of duty, honor, rectitude. What made me want to scream one day could make me proud the next.

Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.

What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.

Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.

Moral judgment is not life-giving; love that transcends the boundaries of judgment as Jesus' love did, is.

Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.

All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.