Character Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

— Charles Dickens

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

— Pleasant Rowland

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

“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

Vices are simply overworked virtues.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

— Alexander Pope

Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

— Kenneth Minogue

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

In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the commonwealth, and…

— Thomas Hobbes

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.

— Antonio Machado

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

— Samuel Butler