Our Vices Quotes

33 quotes by 27 authors

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. — Saint Augustine
Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad,… — Annie Besant
We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we… — Daniel J. Boorstin
If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? — John Churton Collins
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this. — Holbrook Jackson
Our God is a God of love. He waits with open arms, and the unfolding of His merciful plan of salvation is not only therefore… — Neal A. Maxwell
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure. — Livy
We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us. — Lyman Beecher
So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The… — Edward Dahlberg
A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues. We tolerate vice,… — Jose Rizal
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also… — Charles Caleb Colton
Our vices are the excesses of our virtues. — Pleasant Rowland
If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things. — Saint Augustine
In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices. — Jean Rostand
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Ensor sees with his imagination, but his vision is perfectly accurate, of an almost geometric precision. He is one of the very few who can… — Jean Lorrain
Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it, it will either… — Charles Caleb Colton
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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