Beauty Quote by David Hume

We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

— Henry Fielding

Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

— Kenneth Minogue

In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is…

— Aristotle

The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and…

— John Calvin

To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common sense. They…

— Jean Meslier

“The notion of a natural propensity for vice is essential to Sadeian psychology; vice is innate, as is virtue, if social conditions are unalterable.…

— Angela Carter

“Vices have to masquerade as virtues — lust as love, thinly veiled sadism as military discipline, envy as righteous indignation, domestic tyranny as parental concern.”

— Cornelius Plantinga Jr

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

— William Shakespeare

“Live by old Ethicks and the classical Rules of Honesty. Put no new names or notions upon Authentick Virtues and Vices. Think not that…

— Sir Thomas Browne

Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.

— Henry David Thoreau

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

— Alexander Pope

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

— Pleasant Rowland