Common Quote by John William Fletcher

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.

— Richard Whately

Virtue, but still get the same paths, we have forgotten to take it on the eye

— Mak_786

In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.

— John Calvin

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

— Alexander Pope

How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.

— Suzanne Curchod

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.

— Richard Whately

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

— Marquis de Sade

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

— Pleasant Rowland

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

— Seneca the Younger

Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.

— Sri Aurobindo

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.

— John Steinbeck