Arbitrary Quote by John Tillotson

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

— Honore de Balzac

Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God…

— Isaac Watts

Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.

— Osamu Dazai

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

— Barbara Amiel

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

— Petrarch

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same…

— William Hazlitt

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

— Aristotle

Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.

— Ovid

Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.

— Ralph Venning

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

— Joseph Joubert