To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man can be eminently virtuous who is not accustomed to an extensive range of reflection.
Innocence is always unsuspicious.
Innocence can be more powerful than experience.
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.