Quotes About Ethics

Within ten days you will seem a god to those to whom you are now a beast and an ape, if you will return to your principles and the worship of reason.

no matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good. like gold or emerald or purple repeating to itself, no matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.

Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.

No more roundabout discussions of what makes a good man. Be one!

Never value the advantages derived from anything involving breach of faith, loss of self-respect, hatred, suspicion, or execration of others, insincerity, or the desire for something which has to be veiled and curtained.

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good.

Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you're alive and able—be good. 18.

recognize the malice, cunning, and hypocrisy that power produces, and the peculiar ruthlessness often shown by people from "good families.

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

goodness—what defines a good person. Keep to it in everything you do.

Attend to the matter before you, whether it is an opinion or an act or a word. You suffer this justly: for you choose rather to become good tomorrow than to be good today.

And you can also commit injustice by doing nothing.

Kingship: to earn a bad reputation by good deeds.

No thefts of free will reported."[—Epictetus.]

If it is not right, do not do it: if it is not true, do not say it. For let your impulse be in your own power.

And he cares nothing for their praise—men who can't even meet their own standards.

Even when the gods stood on the side of righteousness, they were concerned with the act more than with the intent.

Anywhere you can lead your life, you can lead a good one.

No lo hagas, si no conviene; no lo digas si no es verdad.

For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.

that to expect bad men not to do wrong is madness

To do harm is to do yourself harm. To do an injustice is to do yourself an injustice—it degrades you.