Lao Tzu Quotes

I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

Good morals lead to good laws.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.

I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Virtue is harmony.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, and kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.

We cannot legislate morality. No, and we cannot legislate loyalty, for loyalty is a kind of morality. We cannot produce these things by decrees or commissions or public inquisitions.

The headquarters of good principles.

Civilization depends on morality.

The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew the truth would be wicked.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

Being a 'good man' is something you do, not something you are.

A great sense of morality was instilled in me through my upbringing in the Catholic faith - particularly because my father is a moral theologian. And morality is something I believe exists separate from faith, as an intrinsic human quality that one should aspire to understand and participate in.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

It's obvious you shouldn't steal, kill or be cruel.