morality Quotes

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.

A promise made must be a promise kept.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in... ...