Lao Tzu Quotes

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

I'm actually a very moral guy.

All effective actions require the passport of morality.

Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

A book must have moral purpose to be any good. Why, I don't know.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Be sensible, that is, cease to be honest.

Civilization depends on morality.

We ought never to do wrong when anyone is looking.

I myself have constantly refused to print anything that might countenance vice or promote immorality, though … I might have gotten much money.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

A sense of morality makes a person repetitive in thought and action. Such a person will obviously not get anywhere.

The Master said, I set my heart on the Way, base myself on virtue, lean upon benevolence for support and take my recreation in the arts.

And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

Good and evil are not like the Redskins and the Cowboys.

. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed . . . so long as our manners and principles remain sound, there is no danger.

If virtue precede us every step will be safe.

The so-called new morality is too often the old immorality condoned.

In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.