Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Crime

Quotes about: Crime

• Some crimes get honor and renown by being committed with more pomp, by a greater number, and in a higher degree of wickedness thanothers. Hence it is that public robberies, plunderings, and sackings have been looked upon as excellencies and noble achievements, and the seizing of whole countries, however unjustly and barbarously, is dignified with the glorious name of gaining conquests.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Country, Names, Numbers

• However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious , or impute crimes to it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Evil, May

• We easily forget crimes that are known to none but ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Forget, Crime, Known

• Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Prison, Crime, Incapable

• Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Innocence, Crime, Incapable

• Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ, "Felicity", Leibniz: Political Writings Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. JOHN LOCKE, Some Thoughts Concerning Education However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Writing, Men

• However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Men, Enemy

• 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

  Fall, Men, Credit

• A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find aculprit, and loath to give ourselves the trouble of examining the crime.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Pride, Giving

• There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Numbers, Excess, Splendor

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