Compounds Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Vices are their own punishment

— Aesop

Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

— Ben Jonson

Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other…

— Michel de Montaigne

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

— Mignon McLaughlin

One is punished by the very things by which he sins.

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others,…

— Lysander Spooner

Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any…

— Thomas Jefferson

Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will…

— Allan Pinkerton

Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least…

— Lord Chesterfield

The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles in all…

— Iwan Bloch

One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished…

— Saint Francis de Sales