#morality

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.

To see what is right and not do it is a lack of courage.

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

Whom do you call bad? Him who always wants to put to shame.

Fear is the mother of morality.

The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life.

A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether what he is doing is right or wrong.

If I were forced either to do wrong or to suffer wrong, I would choose to suffer rather than to do wrong.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it.

Without virtue, man is the most unholy and the most savage of animals, and the most full of lust and gluttony.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they had no good qualities at all.

Morality is the basis of things, and truth is the substance of all morality.

A nation's strength resides in the moral education of its youth.

The dice of God are always loaded. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed.

The line separating good and evil passes right through every human heart.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive; but great cleverness and much learning, if accompanied by a perverse upbringing, is a far greater evil.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

He who spares the wicked injures the good.