Belief Quote by Francois La Rochefoucauld

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

— 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 desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

— Pleasant Rowland

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

— Horace Walpole

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

— Samuel Butler

One way or another we all work for our vice.

— Ben Maddow

I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.

— Katy Lederer