Quotes about Morality
When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil.
— Marcus Aurelius
No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good.
— Marcus Aurelius
Goodness—what defines a good person. Keep to it in everything you do.
— Marcus Aurelius
To the best of my judgment, when I look at the human character I see no virtue placed there to counter justice. But I see one to counter pleasure: self-control.
— Marcus Aurelius
How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavour to flee from another's, which is not.
— Marcus Aurelius
He that sinneth, sinneth unto himself. He that is unjust, hurts himself, in that he makes himself worse than he was before. Not he only that committeth, but he also that omitteth something, is oftentimes unjust.
— Marcus Aurelius
Justice: so that you'll speak the truth, frankly and without evasions, and act as you should—and as other people deserve.
— Marcus Aurelius
No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such.
— Marcus Aurelius
And he who pursues pleasure will not abstain from injustice, and this is plainly impiety.
— Marcus Aurelius
Don't imagine that something is good for you if, in pursuing it, you must break a promise, harm anyone else, lose self-respect, act hypocritically, or hide in shame.
— Marcus Aurelius
No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good. Like gold or emerald or purple repeating to itself, "No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.
— Marcus Aurelius
Never regard something as doing you good if it makes you betray a trust, or lose your sense of shame, or makes you show hatred, suspicion, ill will, or hypocrisy, or a desire for things best done behind closed doors.
— Marcus Aurelius