Quotes about Ethics
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
— Joseph Addison
Justice is that which is practiced by God himself, and to be practiced in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it.
— Joseph Addison
How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
— Joseph Addison
Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.
— Joseph Addison
It is an unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions, at some laudable end.
— Joseph Addison
To be perfectly just is an attribute in the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
— Joseph Addison
If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud through all her works) he must delight in virtue.
— Joseph Addison
When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway,The post of honor is a private station.
— Joseph Addison
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
— Joseph Addison
Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
— Joseph Addison
The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
— Joseph Addison
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
— Joseph Addison