Ethics Quote by Michel de Montaigne

“Life in itself is neither good or evil. It is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.”

— Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592

Life is neither a good nor an evil: it is a field for good and evil

— Seneca

Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

— Seneca the Younger

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

— Pearl S. Buck

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.

— Michel de Montaigne

The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.

— Michel de Montaigne

An evil life is a kind of death.

— Ovid

“One intriguing way to enter into the battle between good and evil, life and death, sanity and madness, is in the pages of fiction.”

— Robert Poe

The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.

— Socrates

The life of any one can by no means be changed after death; an evil life can in no wise be converted into a…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view…

— Anonymous

It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable…

— Anton Chekhov