Character Quote by Anuj Somany

Some people with great virtues are disagreeable, while others with great vices are delightful.

— Duc De La Rochefoucals

Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.

— Mason Cooley

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

— Jonathan Swift

Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.

— Henry David Thoreau

“In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.”

— Marquis de Sade

“The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of…

— Criss Jami

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

— Juvenal

If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence [as a whole], then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled…

— Aristotle

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

— Moliere

Our virtues are most often but our vices disguised

— François De La Rochefoucauld