Abandoned Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can…

— Seneca the Younger

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

— Epictetus

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“because men that are free,well born,well bred,and conversant in honest companies have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions,and withdraws…

— Rabelais Francoise

All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices

— Mark Twain

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

— Thornton Wilder

Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.

— Seneca the Younger

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

— Mark Twain

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Women never confess and even when they seemingly resign themselves to such a course they are not sincere.

— Emile Gaboriau

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

— Winston Churchill