Character Quote by Blaise Pascal

“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

“I would sooner have fifty unnatural vices than one unnatural virtue. It is unnatural virtue that makes the world, for those who suffer, such…

— Oscar Wilde

“Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely difficult path of perfection, but sin and vice…

— José Saramago

“Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself. No such conditions can exist as descending into vice and its attendant sufferings…

— James Allen

“People who have no vices, have very few virtues.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“A man treats his own faults as original sin and supposes them scattered everywhere with the seed of Adam. He supposes that men have…

— G.K. Chesterton

“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

“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

“Evil must constantly re-spawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face. While virtue is venerable as nothing…

— john steinbeck

“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

“Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.” She”

— Christine Wiltz

There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.

— Dominique Bouhours