Quote by Marcel Proust

There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close…

— Marcel Proust

“He who wishes to preserve, often destroys, so that virtue seems vice, and vice seems virtue.”

— Guglielmo Ferrero

“People who have no vices, have very few virtues.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.”

— Marquis de Sade

There is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of life's circumstances to a familiarity with…

— Marcel Proust

There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.

— Dominique Bouhours

“It is better to reveal a weakness than allow oneself be suspected of a vice.”

— Denis Diderot

“Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?”

— Gordon R. Dickson

Who does not sufficiently hate vice, does not sufficiently love virtue.

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

“If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of…

— Oscar Wilde

“But because this man listens and that man scoffs, and most are enamored of the blandishments of vice rather than the wholesome severity of…

— Philip Schaff

“There is no worse penalty for vice than the fact that it is dissatisfied with itself and all its fellows.”

— Seneca