Ethics and Morality

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

We have the best government that money can buy.

If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.

Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right .

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see .

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.

The ancient saying that force outdoes inferiors while gentility outdoes superiors.

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

To solve a problem, you need to remove the cause, not the symptom.

The menu is not the meal.

Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.

To speak ill of a good person is not truly good, all in all.

Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.

The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

Make your faces so that they do not all have the same expression, as one sees with most painters, but give them different expression, according to age, complexion, and good or bad character.

To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.

To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble.

Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

Let not your rage or malice destroy a life.

Lying on a feather mattress or quilt will not bring you renown.