613 Quotes About Morals

The values most important to us are always the most easily exploitable.

What you withhold in this life will be withheld from you in the next.

Where there is desire, the means to fulfill it are endless.

for that men have been good does not suffice for them to continue being good, unless one cares about it to the end.

One enjoys the good things more to the extent that one goes to them after having labored in advance, for labors are a sauce for good things

You believe stealing is wrong, but if your family was starving and could not afford bread, wouldn't you say it’s okay to steal a loaf to feed them?

You must always focus on and pursue the good, but when that darkness surges up from within, you need to know how to handle it, use it, and release it wisely, not just deny its presence or acceptability as you suppress it within you.

To paraphrase Lucretius, there's nothing more useful than to watch a man or woman in times of contagious deadly disease peril combined with his or her assumptions of financial adversity to discern what kind of man or woman they really are.

If someone was going to kill someone dear to you, and you could stop that person by killing them instead, would you kill them, knowing it was an effective way to save your loved one?