Associates Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults.

— Pope Agapetus I

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

— Anonymous

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

— Buddha

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

— Samuel Johnson

“As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes…

— Maitreya Upanishad

The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.

— Norm MacDonald

Wicked men obey out of fear; good men, out of love.

— Aristotle

“The Philosopher, too, says of the wicked (Ethic. ix, 4) that "their soul is divided against itself . . . one part pulls this…

— Thomas Aquinas

We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

— Anonymous

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

— Aristotle