There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice;… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What… — Seneca the Elder Copy Share Image
Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked. — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The Scots (originally Irish, but by now Scotch) were at this time inhabiting Ireland, having driven the Irish (Picts) out of Scotland;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised. — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Maintain a good balance. A personal life adds dimensions to your professional life and vice versa. It helps nurture creativity through a… — Kathy Ireland Copy Share Image
The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars.… — Larry Mullen, Jr Copy Share Image
It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes. — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image