Ability Quote by Leonard Read

All societies make necessary moral distinctions between high crimes and misdemeanors, mortal and lesser sins.

— Bret Stephens

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

— Aristotle

Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.

— Francis Quarles

One is punished best for one's virtues.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Without humility of heart all the other virtues by which one runs toward God seem - and are - absolutely worthless.

— Angela of Foligno

Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people

— Don Herold

Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another…

— Ezra Taft Benson

In ethics, there is a humility; moralists are usually righteous.

— John Berger

There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.

— Tacitus

There is no treasure equal to contentment and no virtue equal to fortitude.

— Sarada Devi

If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.

— Jonah Goldberg

Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless…

— Plato