Groundwork Quote by Laozi

“The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be.”

— Tao Te Ching

Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least…

— Lord Chesterfield

Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.

— Edward Gorey

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

— Adam Smith

My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till…

— Anthony Kiedis

The period of Prohibition - called the noble experiment - brought on the greatest breakdown of law and order the United States has known…

— Gore Vidal

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

— James Richardson

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

— Thornton Wilder

I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.

— E. L. Doctorow

The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be.

— Laozi

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

— Henry David Thoreau

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

— Abraham Lincoln