morality Quotes

Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.

The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.

Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

Bad men are full of repentance.

In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at... ...

Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it... ...

The intention makes the crime.

The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.