Thomas Sprat Quotes

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .

I'd always found goodness more interesting then evil, though I was aware this wasn't the most general view. To my mind, it took more work and more courage to be good, an opinion continually reinforced by my own shortcomings.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

If you want to be good, all you've got to do is be good.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.

Virtue is harmony.