Vices Quotes

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The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves. — Thomas Browne
If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern? — Confucius
It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none. — Seneca the Younger
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue. — Confucius
For lawless joys a bitter ending waits. — Pindar
If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle. — Thornton Wilder
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts. — William Shakespeare
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… — Charles Caleb Colton
Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men. — Finley Peter Dunne
Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion… — Aristotle
It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices. — Eric Hoffer
There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask. — Benjamin Franklin
Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical. — Thomas Carlyle
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. — Charles de Gaulle
Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities… — Agnes Repplier
Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them. — Moliere
If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity. — John Ruskin
That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind;… — Samuel Johnson
It is axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it. — Robert Penn Warren
A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or… — Albert Camus

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