Quotes about Ethics
Sin as little as possible-that is the law of mankind. Not to sin at all is the dream of the angel. All earthly things are subject to sin. Sin is like gravity.
— Victor Hugo
A good mayor is a useful person. How can you hold back when you have the chance to do good?
— Victor Hugo
He had come to the supreme crossing of good and evil. He had that gloomy intersection beneath his eyes. On this occasion once more, as had happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. Which was he to take?
— Victor Hugo
No man was created good by God, nor can be made entirely bad by man.
— Victor Hugo
To be wicked does not insure prosperity.
— Victor Hugo
There is one thing sadder than to see one's children die; it is to see them leading an evil life.
— Victor Hugo
He who has not been a determined accuser during prosperity should hold his peace in adversity.
— Victor Hugo
Sin as little as possible - that is the law of mankind. Not to sin at all is the dream of the angel. All earthly tings are subject to sin. Sin is like gravity.
— Victor Hugo
The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in proportion as the fortress is the less menaced.
— Victor Hugo
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
— Victor Hugo
with the exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul means.
— Victor Hugo
If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
— Victor Hugo