Adaptive Quote by Konrad Lorenz

Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his…

— Plutarch

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

— Alexander Pope

The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles in all…

— Iwan Bloch

There are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On account of…

— Franz Kafka

Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.

— John Tillotson

Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they…

— Johannes Tauler

“What is the nature of the guilt that your teachers call his Original Sin? What are the evils man acquired when he fell from…

— Ayn Rand

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

— Cesare Pavese

Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively…

— Maimonides

They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the…

— Thomas Carlyle

One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished…

— Saint Francis de Sales

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