“743. As Virtue is its own Reward, so Vice is its own Punishment.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Variant: 5354. Vice is its own Punishment, and sometimes its own Cure.
“743. As Virtue is its own Reward, so Vice is its own Punishment.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.”
Robert LeFevre (1911–1986) American libertarian businessman
Financial Sense http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/steer/2007/0805.html Also quoted in “Covert Operation”, Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, (Aug. 30, 2010)
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Creo que son los males del alma, el alma. Porque el alma que se cura de sus males, muere.
Voces (1943)
“The impulse to create is pure, self sufficient, its own reward or punishment.”
Vernon Scannell (1922–2007) British boxer and poet
A Proper Gentleman, 1977
“Death comes in its own time, in its own way.
Death is as unique as the individual experiencing it.”
Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933) American diplomat
Gone From My Sight http://www.theribbon.com/poetry/gonefrommysight.asp <br class="br">Undated
Sidney Sheldon (1917–2007) American writer
Source: The Sky is Falling
Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016) English poet and professor
A matter of timing: The Guardian, Saturday 21 September 2002 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/sep/21/featuresreviews.guardianreview28/print
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
The Age of Discontinuity (1969)
1960s - 1980s