The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.
Paul Ricoeur | Moral law
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
G.K. Chesterton – Moral
By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An authour cannot obtrude his advice unasked, nor can be often suspected of any malignant intention to insult his readers with his knowledge or his wit. Yet so prevalent is the habit of comparing ourselves with others, while they remain within the reach of our passions, that books are seldom read with complete impartiality, but by those from whom the writer is placed at such a distance that his life or death is indifferent.
Samuel Johnson – Moral, Temptation, Reading
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
Aristotle – Moral Virtues
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
Thomas Hardy – Moral
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
