Articles Quote by David Brainerd

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

— Dominique Bouhours

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

— Anonymous

Vices are simply overworked virtues.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.

— Juvenal

Vices are their own punishment

— Aesop

“His virtues were so conspicuous that his enemies, unable to overlook them, denied them, and his friends, to whose loose lives they were a…

— Ambrose Bierce

There are many vices which are not believed because of their magnitude.

— Delarivier Manley

Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

— Juvenal

We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

— Horace

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

— Will Durant

“There is no worse penalty for vice than the fact that it is dissatisfied with itself and all its fellows.”

— Seneca