Ethics Quotes

"The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea" "God created man, but I could do better." "The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done" "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking" "The safest way to try to get what you want is to try to deserve what you want" "He who wishes to deceive will never fail to find willing dupes." "Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong" "Are you my friend because you are good, or good because you are my friend" "A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing" "Be good, or be good at it " "The tempter or the tempted, who sins most " "What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?" "If there is no God, everything is permitted" "I know what good morals are, but you're supposed to disregard good morals when you're living in a crazy, bad world" "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction" "Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge." "Men should be what they seem." "The devil can cite scripture for his purpose." "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions" "The rules of morality are not the conclusions of our reason"