Right “Man attracts not by good dressing but by undressing evil thoughts.” “The stupid ridicule right and wrong, but a moral life is a favored life.” Wrong

Disinterestedness

“Laziness is the best medicine to lose opportunities.”

“Uneducated in high society is inferior to educated in low society.”

“If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall”

“There are none so blind as those who will not see”

“Make hay while the sun shines”

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions”

“Easily grasped are the crimes of a hog.”

Selfishness

“Unused wealth is a liability to society.”

“Noble men serve when in need, but mean men serve only when crushed indeed.”

“Power with selfishness creates egoism; power less selfishness creates respect; powerless selfishness creates meanness.”

“I think it’s a problem that people are considered immoral if they’re not religious. That’s just not true…. If you do something for a religious reason, you do it because you’ll be rewarded in an afterlife or in this world. That’s not quite as good as something you do for purely generous reasons.”
Virtue

“Virtuous life brings honour and neglect of it brings disgrace.”

“Virtuous knows the utility of his wealth to devoid others’ poverty.”

“Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.”

“Poverty is not a crime, but it’s better not to show it.”

“Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.”

“A clear conscience is the greatest armor.”

“With virtue you can’t be entirely poor; without virtue you can’t really be rich.

“For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again.

“Every virtue is but halfway between two vices.”

Vice

“Detachment to duties for attachment to lust paves for derailment of life.”

“Gambling gambles with one who gambles.”

“All that glitters is not gold”

“The grass is always greener on the other side”

“Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.”

“No one ever suddenly reached the height of vice.”

“It is easier to run from virtue to vice, than from vice to virtue.”

“Vices creep into our hearts under the name of virtue.”

“Vice is nourished by concealment.”

Innocence

“Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.”

“The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time”

“A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor.”

“Innocence itself sometimes hath need of a mask.”

“Innocence can be an offence”

Guilt

“There’s a black sheep in every family”

“He who is guilty believes that all men speak ill of him.”

“A mind conscious of guilt is its own accuser.”

“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.”