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Vices Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three…
- 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…
- When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.
- Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.
- Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil.…
- The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.
- 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…
- Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purposes from…
- The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.
- There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or…
- Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it…
- No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than…
- He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
- No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more…
More Vices Quotes
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. — Mary Astell
- We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. — Saint Augustine
- It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. — Walter Bagehot
- Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice. — Abu Bakr
- Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. — Mikhail Bakunin
- When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. — Honore de Balzac
- Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. — Tallulah Bankhead
- Fast cars are my only vice. — Michael Bay
- Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. — Henry Ward Beecher
- It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest… — Dirk Benedict
- Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as… — Annie Besant