Quotes About Ethics

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.

There are few chaste women who are not tired of their trade.

Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue.

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.

If a man has no vices, he's in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.

One's outlook is a part of his virtue.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

There are those who have nothing chaste but their ears, and nothing virtuous but their tongues.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

Most men admire Virtue, who follow not her lore.

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

I prefer an accommodation vice to an obstinate virtue.

No good man ever became suddenly rich.

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.

Weak men are apt to be cruel because they stick at nothing that may repair the ill effect of their mistakes.

We are oftener treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

When we do evil, We and our victims Are equally bewildered.

No man ever became very wicked all at once.