Vices Quotes

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In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices. — Jean Rostand
There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa. — Robert Breault
Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice? — Friedrich Nietzsche
Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice. — Aristotle
What once were vices are manners now. — Seneca the Younger
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell… — Seneca the Younger
Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore. — Seneca the Younger
Men love their vices and hate them at the same time. — Seneca the Younger
I do not hate the man, but his vices. — Martial
Spare the person but lash the vice. — Martial
The little vices of the great must needs be accounted very great. — Publilius Syrus
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. — Jonathan Swift
Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is… — Aldous Huxley
When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. — Charles Caleb Colton
Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved. — Charles Caleb Colton
Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable. — Samuel Johnson
Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly — Samuel Johnson
Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice. — George Santayana
So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears… — Boethius
This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty… — Leonardo da Vinci
Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker. — Dorothy Parker
I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice… — Geraldine Ferraro
What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all… — John Milton
Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure. — Mason Cooley

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