Individual Quote by Isidore of Seville

Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.

— Luc de Clapiers

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

— Luc de Clapiers

“Vices have to masquerade as virtues — lust as love, thinly veiled sadism as military discipline, envy as righteous indignation, domestic tyranny as parental concern.”

— Cornelius Plantinga Jr

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

— Will Durant

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with…

— Horace

“What we're fighting against isn't an out-and-out vice. It's an overgrown, perverted virtue.”

— Jared Taylor

They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

— Thomas Browne

Vices are their own punishment

— Aesop

Vices of the time; vices of the man.

— Francis Bacon

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

— Anonymous

There is a ceaseless war against drunkenness and cruelty and vice.

— Anthony Blunt

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

— Henry David Thoreau