Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice. — Mark Udall Copy Share Image
Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice. — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
Knowldeg is the mother of all virtue all vice proceeds from ignorence — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
“What blurt is this about virtue and about vice? Evil propels me and reform of evil propels me, I stand indifferent, My… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“...Though exposed to the same anguish, virtue and vice are not the same thing. For as the same fire causes gold to… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“There is no virtue or vice in a transitive verb, everything depends on the direct object. 'I LOVE' could be virtuous or… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I think this is the only story we have and that it occurs on all levels of feeling and intelligence. Virtue and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Economists get very uncomfortable when you talk about virtue and vice. It doesn't lend itself to a lot of columns with numbers.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart. — Ovid 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
“He who wishes to preserve, often destroys, so that virtue seems vice, and vice seems virtue.” — Guglielmo Ferrero Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence. — Ralph Venning Copy Share Image
For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
