Character Quote by Anonymous

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

— Seneca the Elder

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

— Honore de Balzac

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

— Henry Fielding

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

— Pleasant Rowland

“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

In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the commonwealth, and…

— Thomas Hobbes

Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It…

— Aldous Huxley

“Most vices… demand considerable self-sacrifice. There is no greater mistake than to suppose the vicious life is the life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is…

— Aldous Huxley

We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

— Henry Fielding

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

— Alexander Pope

“Most people indulged in their vices and clung to their virtues based on their responses to temptation and conflict, not because some Other within…

— Dean Koontz

Our virtues make us; but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times

— Hilary Mantel