“The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender.”
More from Dante on Ethics
“It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]”
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.”
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.”
“Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.”
“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.”
Others on Ethics
Ayn Rand
9 quotes“Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.”
Saint Augustine
8 quotes“If we live good lives the times are also good. As we are such are the times.”
David Hume
7 quotes“The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.”
Thomas Paine
4 quotes“Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right a...”
Einstein
4 quotes“True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis.~ Albert Einstein”
Marcus Aurelius
4 quotes“Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or saying anything that d...”
Pope Benedict XVI
4 quotes“Morality is not man's prison but rather the divine element in him.”
Confucius
3 quotes“Tsze-kung wished to dispense with the sacrifice of a sheep for the New Moon ceremony. The Master said, "You love the she...”
Adam Smith
3 quotes“In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.”
Percy Shelley
3 quotes“All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil.”
Philip K. Dick
3 quotes“If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what yo...”
Immanuel Kant
3 quotes“...I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become universal law.”