virtuous intentions Quotes

It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.

God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.

He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.

Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.

I've always thought that as long as I did the right things and had the right intentions, everything would fall into place.

The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'

We can always find noble reasons for what we want to do.

We are carrying these images out into the world, and we can't control how people contextualize those images no matter how virtuous our aspirations and our intentions are.

He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.