Commit Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not…

— Joseph Addison

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

— Honore de Balzac

Nothing is more common than for men to make partial and absurd distinctions between vices of equal enormity, and to observe some of the…

— Samuel Johnson

“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

“You will find it less easy to unroot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults, still less…

— John Ruskin

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

— Francis Picabia

“When man finds in himself a certain defect, of which he can by no means rid himself, there remains but to accept the so-called…

— Lev Shestov

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the…

— Hippolyte Taine

“Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you. All men make mistakes, it is only human. But once the wrong is done,…

— Sophocles

“Do you think that the man has any thought of mending his ways who counts over his vices as if they were virtues? Therefore,…

— Seneca

Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or…

— Baruch Spinoza