Quotes About Ethics

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

Virtue is harmony.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

I have often thought that if a well-grounded affection be not really a part of virtue, it is something extremely akin to it.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.