613 Quotes About Morals

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong.

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped,deserves to be whipped.

Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby.

Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.

Montaigne said long ago: "Were I not to follow the straight road for its straightness, I should follow it for having found by experience that in the end it is commonly the happiest and most useful track." The doctrine of interest rightly understood is not then new, but among the Americans of our time it finds universal acceptance; it has become popular there; you may trace it at the bottom of all their actions, you will remark it in all they say.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

{We} have not to crown the exceptional man who knows he can rule; rather we must crown the much more exceptional man who knows he can’t.

All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try.