Agrippina-the-younger Quote by Guglielmo Ferrero

“In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.”

— Marquis de Sade

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

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

“People who have no vices, have very few virtues.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Evil must constantly re-spawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face. While virtue is venerable as nothing…

— john steinbeck

“Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our…

— Aristotle

“There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close…

— Marcel Proust

“I would sooner have fifty unnatural vices than one unnatural virtue. It is unnatural virtue that makes the world, for those who suffer, such…

— Oscar Wilde

“What blurt is this about virtue and about vice? Evil propels me and reform of evil propels me, I stand indifferent, My gait is…

— Walt Whitman

“A vice is merely a pleasure that someone else has objected to.”

— Robin Skelton

“Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?”

— Gordon R. Dickson

“A vice is a thing which may be applauded in moderation but becomes horrific in overuse.”

— Graham Moore

“Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice.”

— Raheel Farooq