Quotes about Morality
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
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
— Joseph Addison
Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
— 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
Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
— Joseph Addison
Here will I hold. If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Thro' all her works), He must delight in virtue; And that which he delights in must be happy.
— Joseph Addison
When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.15
— Joseph Addison
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
— Joseph Addison
Life-the way it really is-is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
— Joseph Brodsky