Advice Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Honore de Balzac

We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that…

— Thomas Paine

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

— Pleasant Rowland

Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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

— Alexander Pope

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

— Charles Dickens

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

Vices are simply overworked virtues.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

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

When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux