Quotes About Ethics

Keep Conscience clear, then never fear.

Nothing so likely to make a man's fortune as virtue.

several of us were corrected by our fathers; and though I pleaded the usefulness of the work, mine convinced me that nothing was useful which was not honest.

It was about this time I conceiv'd the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection.

Doing an Injury puts you below your Enemy; Revenging one makes you but even with him; Forgiving it sets you above him.

convinc'd that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life;

God works wonders now & then; Behold! a Lawyer, an honest Man!

I had formerly been a great lover of fish, and, when this came hot out of the frying-pan, it smelt admirably well. I balanc'd some time between principle and inclination, till I recollected that, when the fish were opened, I saw smaller fish taken out of their stomachs; then thought I, "If you eat one another, I don't see why we mayn't eat you.

though I pleaded the usefulness of the work, mine convinced me that nothing was useful which was not honest.

I will freely spend nineteen shillings in the pound to defend my right of giving or refusing the other shilling.

It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Franklin's Note.—Nothing so likely to make a man's fortune as virtue.

vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful,

grew convinc'd that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life; and I form'd written resolutions, which still remain in my journal book, to practice them ever while I lived.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

A man compounded of Law and Gospel, is able to cheat a whole country with his Religion, and then destroy them under Colour of Law.

The noblest question in the world is What good may I do in it?

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

of your own or another's peace or reputation. HUMILITY. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.

vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful, the nature of man alone considered; that it was, therefore, every one's interest to be virtuous who wished to be happy even in this world;

no qualities were so likely to make a poor man's fortune as those of probity and integrity.

I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it.