Vice and Virtue

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke, in Vice and Virtue

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Marva Collins, in Vice and Virtue

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Charles Caleb Colton, in Vice and Virtue

We are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1.247, in Vice and Virtue

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal, in Vice and Virtue

To err is human, to forgive divine.

Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, in Vice and Virtue

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

Jules Renard, in Vice and Virtue

If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him.

Cardinal Richelieu, in Vice and Virtue

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

La Rochefoucauld, in Vice and Virtue

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

John D. Rockefeller, in Vice and Virtue and Wealth and Poverty

A man wrapped up in himself makes a pretty small package.

John Ruskin, in Vice and Virtue

I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.

John Brown, in Vice and Virtue

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

Laurie Anderson, in Vice and Virtue

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

Aristotle, Rhetoric, in Vice and Virtue

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right, shame on you.

Louis Armstrong, in Vice and Virtue

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

Isaac Asimov, Foundation, in Vice and Virtue

Coward: one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

Ambrose Bierce, in Vice and Virtue and War and Peace

It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when it is thrust into the affairs of another, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.

Ambrose Bierce, in Vice and Virtue

A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent

William Blake, in Vice and Virtue

He whose face gives no light shall never become a star.

William Blake, in Vice and Virtue