Sigmund Freud Quotes

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.

Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.

To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

Good deeds are many, but good lives are few.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

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

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

Better not to exist than live basely.

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

A man's virtue is best secured by shame, and best improved by emulation in the society of virtuous men.

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

I've never met anyone who is seriously bad.