Quotes About Ethics

What a blessing it is, when undue influence does not survive the grave!

Do not defer it. What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

I am not one of those who neglect the reigning to bow to the rising sun.

There is one thing...which a man can always do, if he chuses[sic], and that is, his duty.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not, what they ought to be, so are the nation.

Sí; la vanidad es, en efecto, una debilidad. Pero en cuanto al orgullo, donde se dé verdadera superioridad de espíritu, estará siempre justificado.

My business was to declare myself a scoundrel, and whether I did it with a bow or a bluster was of little importance.

Hay?rseverliÄŸine hayran?m, diye konuÅŸtu Mary, Ama yine de bütün duygusal dürtüler mant?kla yönlendirilmelidir. Åžahsen fikrimi sorarsan; insan?n harcad??? her emek daima kendisinden talep edilenle doÄŸru orant?l? olmal?d?r.

There is always one thing a man can do, if he so chooses, and that is his duty.

Respect for right conduct is felt by everybody.

Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling.

The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. -Sense and Sensibility

No has de cambiar, por consideración a una persona, el significado de los principios y de la integridad, ni tratar de convencerte, o convencerme a mí, de que el egoísmo es prudencia y la insensibilidad ante el peligro certidumbre de felicidad.

When a young man, be who he will, comes and makes love to a pretty girl, and promises marriage, he has no business to fly off from his word only because he grows poor, and a richer girl is ready to have him. Why don't he, in such a case, sell his horses, let his house, turn off his servants, and make a thorough reform at once?

When people are determined on a mode of conduct which they know to be wrong, they feel injured by the expectation of any thing better from them.

She was obliged to recollect that her seeing the letter was a violation of the laws of honour, that no one ought to be judged or to be known by such testimonies, that no private correspondence could bear the eye of others

Nessuna condotta, neppure la più corretta, può sfuggire alla malevolenza della calunnia.

Dia mesti mencamkan bahwa tak seorang pun berhak dinilai atau dihakimi berdasarkan korespondensi pribadinya.

loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

Çünkü s?rf içimizi rahatlatmak için verdiÄŸimiz sözleri bile tutamayacak hale gelirsek, ahlak kurallar?na ne olur?

Pray, my dear aunt, what is the difference in matrimonial affairs, between the mercenary and the prudent motive? Where does discretion end, and avarice begin?

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

But how little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue, she could easily conjecture.

The novels which I approve are such as display human nature with grandeur