J. William Schickel famous quotes

Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.
-- J. William Schickel

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When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!

Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who do not know their own virtue.

I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!

It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.

Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast.

Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.