Crime Quote by Lord Chesterfield

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

— Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

There are some faults which men readily admit, but others not so readily.

— Epictetus

Some of their faults men readily admit, but others not so readily.

— Epictetus

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

— Samuel Johnson

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

men do not suspect faults which they do not commit

— Samuel Johnson

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is…

— Sophocles

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils,…

— Jonathan Swift

Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because... they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention…

— Calvin Coolidge

Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.

— William Faulkner

Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system and try…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton