If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Topics: Ethics Quotes

It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from...

It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from...

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the...

I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the...

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke...

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke...

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of...

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of...

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others,...

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others,...

The world has no room for cowards.

The world has no room for cowards.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

The obscurest epoch is today.

The obscurest epoch is today.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for...

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for...

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly.

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly.

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which...

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which...

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can...

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can...

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality...

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality...

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.