Branches Quote by Blaise Pascal

There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like…

— Blaise Pascal

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

— Anonymous

Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least…

— Lord Chesterfield

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

— Saint Augustine

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the…

— William Hazlitt

What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

— Pleasant Rowland

When our vices quit us, we flatter ourselves with the belief that it is we who quit them

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

Vices are their own punishment

— Aesop

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

— Charles Dickens