We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice. — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
There are many vices which are not believed because of their magnitude. — Delarivier Manley Copy Share Image
I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices. — Bias of Priene Copy Share Image
When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson, if he was vice president there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President… — Jack Ruby Copy Share Image
Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is-I'm not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Vices have to masquerade as virtues — lust as love, thinly veiled sadism as military discipline, envy as righteous indignation, domestic tyranny… — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image
For AXE to take a chance on me and to help me, you know, collaborating with them was just a really, really… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride,… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Cancer is not something confined to human beings. It's found in all multi cellular organisms where the adult cells proliferate, so it's… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Yet I have a clever touch and pander to your vices. While looking on in exultation. And so I play my game,… — Paul Meyer Copy Share Image
In the end, living is defined by dying. Book- ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats… — Menander Copy Share Image
It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Nothing can tell us so much about the general lawlessness of humanity as a perfect acquaintance with our own immoderate behavior. If… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Your sect [the Jews] by its sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal point of religious insolence, inherent in every… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Do What Thou Wilt; because men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur… — François Rabelais Copy Share Image
Caring for animals means caring for the environment they live in, and vice versa. — Karen Dawn Copy Share Image