4 Ben Jonson Quotes on Morality

Ben Jonson quotes on morality

20. There's reason good, that you good laws should make: Men's manners ne'er were viler, for your sake.

24. The ports of death are sins; of life, good deeds: Through which our merit leads us to our meeds. How willful blind is he then, that would stray, And hath it in his powers, to make his way! This world death's region is, the other life's: And here, it should be one of our first strifes, So to front death, as men might judge us past it. For good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

30. Not to know vice at all, and keep true state, Is virtue, and not fate: Next to that virtue is to know vice well, And her black spite expel.

47. Folly often goes beyond her bounds; but Impudence knows none.