Quotes about Ethics
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doing well is a result of doing good.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson