Quotes about Morality

Sin as little as possible-that is the law of mankind. Not to sin at all is the dream of the angel. All earthly things are subject to sin. Sin is like gravity.

To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule. Err, fall, sin if you will, but be upright.

He had come to the supreme crossing of good and evil. He had that gloomy intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. Which was he to take?

War has frightful beauties which we have not concealed; it has also, we acknowledge, some hideous features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the bodies of the dead after the victory. The dawn which follows a battle always rises on naked corpses.

One does not cross-examine a saint.

No man was created good by God, nor can be made entirely bad by man.

To be wicked does not insure prosperity.

There is one thing sadder than to see one's children die; it is to see them leading an evil life.

Sin as little as possible - that is the law of mankind. Not to sin at all is the dream of the angel. All earthly tings are subject to sin. Sin is like gravity.

The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in proportion as the fortress is the less menaced.

In the first place, the rule; as for the code, we shall see. Make as many laws as you please, men; but keep them for yourselves. The tribute to Caesar is never anything but the remnants of the tribute to God. A prince is nothing in the presence of a principle.

with the exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul means.