Moliere Quotes

If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?

Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

A man is not good or bad for one action.

Basic moral values must therefore first be internalized in the hearts and minds of its people before we can hope to enforce legislation reflecting these values

When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God.

Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but pass?. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.

All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.

You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.

The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.

We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.

Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre

So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.