Charlie Munger Quotes

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.

There is good and evil in each of us, and you can easily be led to the dark side.

Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.

He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

Vice is a dreary business. And virtue is not a lot of fun, either.

Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.

It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.

Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.

Oh but I'd pay anything to keep my conscience clean.I'm keeping my eyes on the the exit sign. Steady now.

Don't let a little sin in; all hell will break loose.

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.

Attention gets you the opposite sex sometimes.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

Each one of us has both; good and evil virtues. Those who decide to focus on the good ones succeed in life.

It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.

It is better to do nothing Than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself.

Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

You can't slice up morals.

The Devil may also make use of morality.

A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.

It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones.