morality Quotes

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.

People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.

Bad people are full of regret.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world

[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue... ...

In justice is all virtues found in sum.

The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain... ...

Honesty requires us to value truth above our friends.