Philip Massinger Quotes

Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

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

God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

The just man walks in his integrity

If they are just, they are better than clever.

Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.

Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

All virtue is summed up by just dealing.

The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.

To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude-this is to be a man.

If all men were just there would be no need of valor.

Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.

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

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.