Vicesimus Knox Quotes

God commands (people) to maintain justice, kindness, and proper relations with their relatives. He forbids them to commit indecency, sin, and rebellion.

Aliena vitia in oculis habemus, a tergo nostra sunt.

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.

O philosophy, life’s guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee?

Every other vice hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of some excuse, but envy wants both.

That learning belongs not to the female character, and that the female mind is not capable of a degree of improvement equal to that of the other sex, are narrow and unphilosophical prejudices.