morality Quotes

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions.... ...

Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of... ...

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.