ethics Quotes

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

What is permissible is not always honorable.