Ben Jonson Quote

I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.

The alchemist. Catiline, his conspiracy. Bartholomew Fair (ed. 1756)

I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.

I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.

I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.

I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.