Ignorance Quote by Ann Radcliffe

Pleasure itself is not a vice

— Samuel Johnson

All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.

— Fernando Pessoa

“All pleasure is a vice because seeking pleasure is what everyone does in life, and the worst vice of all is to do what…

— Fernando Pessoa

A vice is a failure of desire

— Gerald Stanley Lee

Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as vices, by their effects, until after they…

— Lysander Spooner

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

— Walter Bagehot

True enjoyments also keep people from vice.

— Samuel Johnson

A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.

— Robin Skelton

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

— Rebecca West

The truth is, we are a culture built on a reward system, and our instinctive pursuit of pleasure can often lead us astray. We…

— Dan Levy

Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.

— Steve Maraboli

Nothing can be more real, or concern us more, than our own sentiments of pleasure and uneasiness; and if these be favourable to virtue…

— David Hume