Code Quote by Kenneth Grahame

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

— Samuel Butler

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

— Samuel Butler

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

— Rebecca West

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

It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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

— Anonymous

For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very…

— Lysander Spooner

“private vice can be publicly beneficial”

— Bernard Mandeville

A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.

— Robin Skelton

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

— Laozi

Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.

— Charles Fourier

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

— Charles Caleb Colton