Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland, lines 1-2. Comparable to "The flattering, mighty, nay, almighty gold", John Wolcot, To Kien Long, Ode iv; "Almighty dollar", Washington Irving, The Creole Village.
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), The Forest
“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”
Epode, lines 1-4
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), The Forest
“Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.”
Diary (21 December 1843), referring to Aristotle's Ethics
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
“Idleness is the mother of all vices, but also of all virtues.”
Men of Action
Alain On Happiness (1928)
“This man sold his country for gold.”
Vendidit hic auro patriam.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 621
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 89
Source: Contributions to the history and improvement of the german universities - A history of pedagogy; volume 4 (1855), p. 99
“All my foundation in virtue was no other than a total ignorance of vice.”
Page 40
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
Pt. I, Lib. II, Ch. VI.
Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604)
