Morality

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life