Quotes About Ethics

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

Ultimately, at the end of the day, you couldn't say you were better than the other person because you knew you had a secret. You knew you had cheated.

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day.

unless wicked ideas take root in a naturally depraved mind, human nature, in a right and wholesome state, revolts at crime.

La felicidad hace buenos hasta a los malvados.

In any case, even the most corrupt of us finds it hard to believe in evil unless it is based on some interest. We reject the idea of harm done for no cause and without gain as anomalous.

lawyers always give you very bad dinners. You would think they felt some remorse;

happiness makes even wicked men good, …

Some virtues, when taken to the extreme, become crimes.

disinterestedness is the brightest ray in which a noble sword can shine.

We are often criminals in the eyes of the earth, not only for having committed crimes, but because we know that crimes have been committed.

Seek whom the crime will profit,' says an axiom of jurisprudence.

Athos, according to his system, neither encouraged nor dissuaded him.

Nu suntem niciodat? chit cu cei fa?? de care avem obliga?ii...,c?ci, dac? nu le mai dator?m bani, le dator?m totu?i recuno?tin??.

Le roi  ! Je le croyais assez philosophe pour comprendre qu'il n'y a pas de meurtre en politique.

Oui, le dévouement; c'est ainsi qu'on appelle en termes honnêtes, l'ambition qui espère.»

Danaro e santita, Meta della meta.

L'honneur, c'est le respect de ce que l'on doit aux autres, et surtout de ce qu'on se doit à soi-même.»

añadamos que, en aquellos tiempos de moral quebradiza, tampoco se avergonzaban de que sus amantes les regalaran con mucha frecuencia preciosos y perdurables recuerdos, como si tratasen de fortalecer la fragilidad de sus sentimientos con la solidez de sus presentes. Era

Non sapete - disse Porthos - che torcere il collo a quella dannata Milady sarebbe un peccato meno grave che torcerlo a quei poveri diavoli di ugonotti, che non hanno commesso altro delitto che quello di cantare in francese salmi che noi cantiamo in latino?».