Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the…

— William Hazlitt

When our vices quit us, we flatter ourselves with the belief that it is we who quit them

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

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

— Alexander Pope

“We tend to overlook only those vices that we also have.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later,…

— Bob Dylan

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

— Pleasant Rowland

We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A vice is a failure of desire

— Gerald Stanley Lee

Our virtues make us; but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times

— Hilary Mantel

Vices may be said to await us along the course of our lives like hosts with whom we lodge successively on a journey; and…

— François La Rochefoucauld Duc De