Vices Quotes

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If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things. — Saint Augustine
Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the… — Nicolas Chamfort
Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie
It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie
A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being… — Moliere
I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me. — Henry David Thoreau
Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever. — Luc de Clapiers
It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly. — Mignon McLaughlin
Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them. — Mahatma Gandhi
Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries...… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a… — Michel de Montaigne
If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice,… — Michel de Montaigne
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice. — Marcel Proust
Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make… — Marcel Proust
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches… — Thomas Jefferson
There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability… — Victor Hugo
Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart. — Unknown Author
It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books. — William Hazlitt
Vices are often habits rather than passions. — Antoine Rivarol
The American vice is explanation. — Gore Vidal
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to… — Alexis de Tocqueville

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