Character Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Samuel Butler

The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

— Ruth Gordon

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

— Honore de Balzac

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

— Marquis de Sade

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

— Luc de Clapiers

Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.

— Jean Racine

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

— Katy Lederer

Most virtue lies between two vices.

— Horace

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

— Barbara Amiel