History Quote by Anonymous

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

— Horace

“In those days the worst vice in England was pride, I guess—the worst vice of all, because folks thought it was a virtue.”

— Carol Ryrie Brink

“There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close…

— Marcel Proust

“People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.”

— Aubrey Beardsley

“If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of…

— Oscar Wilde

“There is no worse penalty for vice than the fact that it is dissatisfied with itself and all its fellows.”

— Seneca

“What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that,…

— Epictetus

“But if the abberations of foolish youth made me forget suc wise lessons for a time,I have the happiness to sense at last that…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?”

— Gordon R. Dickson

“We do not despise all those with vices, but we do despise all those without a single virtue.”

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

“His virtues were so conspicuous that his enemies, unable to overlook them, denied them, and his friends, to whose loose lives they were a…

— Ambrose Bierce