ethics Quotes

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

Courage is the most important human quality because it helps you have all the other good qualities.

Happiness is the reward of virtue.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.

Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.

Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its... ...

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect... ...

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.