Quotes about Morality
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
— Oscar Wilde
Vice can be learnt, even without a teacher.
— Seneca
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I believe that Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.
— Charles Dickens
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most men admire Virtue, who follow not her lore.
— John Milton
Wickedness is weakness.
— John Milton
The sun also shines on the wicked.
— Seneca
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
— Epictetus
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'
— Hilaire Belloc
You and I are what we are, and will be what we will be. As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that... The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. That is all.
— Oscar Wilde
Gratitude is the mother of the virtues.
— Cicero