As you do not sweeten your ...

As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.
As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.
 Ivan Panin

More phrases

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Quotes from the same author

What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.
 Ivan Panin