A Quote by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
English - Politician
May 25, 1803 - January 18, 1873

Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In some Mayan villages they even have a stage beyond the elder that they call the Echo Person. They say that when an Echo Person, whether a man or a woman, speaks, the words echo both in this world and in the other world. That's why they are called Echo People.

Robert Bly

Virtue is no empty echo.

Friedrich Schiller

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

William Cullen Bryant

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.

William C. Bryant

O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.

Edward Young

Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct.

William Carlos Williams

When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness is lost there are rituals.