Echoes

Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but truth is a greater friend.

It is not truth that makes man great, but man that makes truth great.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

Virtue is serious business; everything else is farce.

I rely on two precedents: first, to similar cases our Sages applied the verse, "It is time to do something in honour of the Lord: for they have made void thy law"... Secondly, they have said, "Let all thy acts be guided by pure intentions." ...Lastly, when I have a difficult subject before me—when I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools—I prefer to address myself to the one man, and to take no notice whatever of the condemnation of the multitude; I prefer to extricate that intelligent man from his embarrassment and show him the cause of his perplexity, so that he may attain perfection and be at peace.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

Go forth in virtue!

Virtue is the root; wealth is the result.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Consciously or unconsciously, the reader is dissatisfied with being told only what is not; he wishes to be told what is.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing.

The gentleman understands what is moral. The small man understands what is profitable.

Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but, contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.

You are neither right nor wrong because people agree with you.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.