Character Quote by Edward Young

There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.

— Anonymous

There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation among his…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.

— Jean Racine

He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he…

— Seneca the Younger

Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man can be…

— William Godwin

He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.

— Juvenal

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

— Jonathan Swift

Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man…

— Levi Woodbury

One is punished best for one's virtues.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that…

— Henry Fielding