ethics Quotes

The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

Therefore, the ultimate goal of politics should be the good of humanity.

Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

The worst unfairness is trying to make things equal when they are naturally different.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not... ...

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore... ...

Character is determined by choice, not opinion.

Thus it is thought that justice is equality; and so it is, but not for all persons, only for those that are equal. Inequality also is thought to be just; and so it is, but not for all, only for... ...