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“We pay for vice by the knowledge that we are wicked; we pay for pleasure when we find out too late that we are…

— Cyril Connolly

“Some vices delight them as being proofs of their prosperity; it seems the part of a man who is very lowly and despicable to…

— Seneca

Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

“Vices have to masquerade as virtues — lust as love, thinly veiled sadism as military discipline, envy as righteous indignation, domestic tyranny as parental concern.”

— Cornelius Plantinga Jr

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that sensibility of…

— Edmund Burke

“A parte de la vida misma, no veo otropa motivo para seguir viviendo.”

— Yu Hua

“You must master the vices. You know that if a thing is worth doing it's worth doing well. If, however, a thing is not…

— Isla Dewar

“What blurt is this about virtue and about vice? Evil propels me and reform of evil propels me, I stand indifferent, My gait is…

— Walt Whitman

“In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. Marquis de Sade”

— S.A Gambino

“You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not,…

— Alexandre Dumas

“Nearly all vices are rooted in the future. Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust and ambition look…

— C.S. Lewis

“Alimentados de pesimismo no vivimos la vida, la sufrimos.”

— Miguel Delibes