4 Ben Jonson Quotes on Virtue

Ben Jonson quotes on virtue

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.

26. Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die; Which in life did harbor give To more virtue than doth live.

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.

31. Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, And almost every vice - almighty gold.