Quotes About Righteousness

If it is not right, do not do it: if it is not true, do not say it. For let thy efforts beIn everything always observe what the thing is which produces for thee an appearance

undeviating firmness in giving to every man according to his deserts;

Everywhere and continually it is in your power to be reverently content with your present circumstance, to behave to men who are present with you according to right and to handle skillfully the present impression, that nothing you have not mastered may cross the threshold of the mind.

Let opinion be taken away, and no man will think himself wronged. If no man shall think himself wronged, then is there no more any such thing as wrong. That which makes not man himself the worse, cannot make his life the worse, neither can it hurt him either inwardly or outwardly. It was expedient in nature that it should be so, and therefore necessary.

Why all this guesswork? You can see what needs to be done. If you can see the road, follow it. Cheerfully, without turning back. If not, hold up and get the best advice you can. If anything gets in the way, forge on ahead, making good use of what you have on hand, sticking to what seems right. (The best goal to achieve, and the one we fall short of when we fail.)

Then the only proper response for me to make is this: 'You are much mistaken, my friend, if you think that any man worth his salt cares about the risk of death and doesn't concentrate on this alone: whether what he's doing is right or wrong, and his behavior a good man's or a bad one's.' 

While you live—while you can—be a good man.

Don't stray, but do what's right whenever you're moved to act, and stick with what's clear and certain whenever you think.

Conviene, por consiguiente, mantenerse recto, no enderezado.

HE WHO ACTS UNJUSTLY ACTS IMPIOUSLY.

To righteousness, in speaking the truth freely, and without ambiguity; and in doing all things justly and discreetly.

That every event is the right one. Look closely and you'll see. Not just the right one overall, but right. As if someone had weighed it out with scales. Keep looking closely like that, and embody it in your actions: goodness—what defines a good person.

No more roundabout discussion of what makes a good man. Be one!

that their happiness doth consist in a disposition to, and in the practice of righteousness;

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

The best way of avenging yourself is not to become like the wrongdoer.

If it is not right do not do it, if it is not true do not say it.

Righteous people are those who do what is right.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

We are born for justice, and . . . what is just is based, not on opinion, but on nature.

nothing is generous that is not at the same time just.

Justice is the mistress and queen of all the virtues.

Now young lady,' he said to me, 'I'm not going to chastize you personally because I can see you are a nice girl and only the innocent means to this abominable end. But you will be so kind as to give these tracts to your employers. Who can tell but that their hearts may yet be softened? The propagation of drink and of drunkenness to excess is an iniquity, a sin against the Lord.

The time is always right to do what is right.