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Vices Quotes by Saint Augustine
- We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
- If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.
- We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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
- I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those… — Abraham Lincoln
- Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich,… — William Shakespeare
- As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military… — Edward Gibbon
- We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. — Henry David Thoreau
- Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it. — Edgar Degas