morality Quotes

And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to... ...

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

Even though we love both truth and our friends, being principled means honoring the truth first.

For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. .

Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible... ...

Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.