Quotes About Ethics

For Aristotle, power along with wealth and friendships were the three components that added up to a person's happiness.

Aristóteles, el poder, la riqueza y las amistades eran los tres elementos que constituían la felicidad de una persona. La

Gran parte de la clase media y hasta gente de la más alta alcurnia también simpatizan con el discurso regenerador de la moral pública que el líder disemina por todos los medios de comunicación.

Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

Deceived on all sides, overwhelmed with injustice, I will fly from an abyss where vice is triumphant, and seek out some small secluded nook on earth, where on may enjoy the freedom of being an honest man.

A shoemaker, in making a pair of shoes, cannot spoil a scrap of leather without having to bear the loss; but in our business we may spoil a man without its costing us a farthing. The blunders are never put down to us, and it is always the fault of the fellow who dies. The best of this profession is, that there is the greatest honesty and discretion among the dead; for you never find them complain of the physician who has killed them.

Contre la médisance il n'est point de rempart.

Femeile frumoase au datoria de a ne scoate din min?i.

The public scandal is what brings offence, And secret sinning is not sin at all.

l'hypocrisie est un vice à la mode, et tous les vices à la mode passent pour vertus.

It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

Le scandale du monde, est ce qui fait l'offense; Et ce n'est pas pécher, que pécher en silence.

There are things in life which one cannot well defend, although one may have the greatest wish to do so.

On n'a plus qu'à commettre tous les crimes imaginables, tromper, voler, assassiner, et dire pour excuse qu'on y a été poussé par la destinée.

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.

Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

I prefer an accommodating vice to an obstinate virtue.