The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.


Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt]. (ed. 1837)

William Hazlitt Quotes

The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.

The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.

The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.

The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.