Character Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We do not despise all those with vices, but we do despise all those without a single virtue.”

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

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

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.

— Anonymous

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

— Bergen Evans

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

— Anonymous

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

— Abraham Lincoln

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

— Edmund Burke

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

— Pleasant Rowland

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

— Dominique Bouhours

Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms.

— John F. Kennedy

Vices are simply overworked virtues.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

— Will Durant