ethics
“Luxury corrupts both the state and the individual.”
“He who has killed his conscience is a monster.”
“Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.”
“Character is destiny.”
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
“Words—so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”
“The rules of morality are not the conclusions of our reason.”
“To love is to act.”
“Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.”
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
“A man only has the right to look down on another when he helps him to lift himself up.”
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being.”
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”
“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.”
“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
“Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”