3 Henry Fielding Quotes on Ethics

Henry Fielding quotes on ethics

31. Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

33. He was, indeed, in a condition, in which, if reason had interposed, though only to advise, she might have received the answer which one Cleostratus gave many years ago to a silly fellow, who asked him, if he was not ashamed to be drunk? 'Are not you,' said Cleostratus, 'ashamed to admonish a drunken man?'--To say the truth, in a court of justice drunkenness must not be an excuse, yet in a court of conscience it is greatly so.

42. These are called the pious frauds of friendship.