Branches Quote by Blaise Pascal

Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.

— Blaise Pascal

If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.

— Saint Augustine

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

— Anonymous

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

— Saint Augustine

The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and…

— John Calvin

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

— Alexander Pope

May the humanity that is within every human being be held precious. The vice that underlies all vices is that we are held cheap…

— Felix Adler

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

— Pleasant Rowland

“Trees hang their branches”

— Allen Ginsberg

You have to risk to get ahead The person whos always hugging the tree trunk and never walking out onto the skinny branches will…

— John de Lancie

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Before one can cut an upright branch of a tree, you have to stand on the crooked one”

— Anthony Nyuiemedy-Adiase