Ethics and Morality

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

Men may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Kind hearts are more than coronets,

 

So careful of the type she seems,

 

And trust me not at all or all in all.

 

His honour rooted in dishonour stood,

 

Wearing the white flower of a blameless life,

 

Had I but served my God with half the zeal

 

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot

 

Consideration like an angel came,

 

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

 

The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.

 

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

 

Pathos, piety, courage—they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

 

How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species.

 

He said likewise That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies, That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

 

Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King— Else, wherefore born?

 

Man’s word is God in man.

 

There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.

 

Hold thou the good; define it well; For fear divine Philosophy Should push beyond her mark, and be Procuress to the Lords of Hell.

 

With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter’s heart.

 

But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.

 

’Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.

 

Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. 6