morality Quotes

If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the... ...

A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to... ...

The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things... ...

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

Wickedness is nourished by lust.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

Those who are truly virtuous have the best right to rebel, but they are also the least likely to do so.

From philosophy, I learned to do good deeds without being told, while others only do them out of fear of the law.