There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.
-
Similar:
| Quote 2682 | No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe, as from our own. Therefore, we are saved by the final form of... |
| Quote 7346 | There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. |
| Quote 3342 | There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unple... |
| Quote 12892 | Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures whe... |
| Quote 5007 | There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite... |
| Quote 3998 | How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and ... |
| Quote 4715 | The great principle which this house ought to guard and cherish is that, when the tax collector comes to the private citizen and takes from ... |
| Quote 6657 | Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make the... |
| Quote 2844 | There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. |