Energy Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little further, and try to plant a virtue…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.

— Katy Lederer

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

— Thornton Wilder

He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand;…

— C. S. Lewis

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

— Brendan Behan

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

— Luc de Clapiers

There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.

— Dominique Bouhours

Who does not sufficiently hate vice, does not sufficiently love virtue.

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

— Moliere

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

— Marquis de Sade

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

— Honore de Balzac

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

— William Shakespeare