Action Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man…

— Charles M. Blow

In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the commonwealth, and…

— Thomas Hobbes

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same…

— William Hazlitt

The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon…

— Roger L'Estrange

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

A real intelligent or brilliant or intellectual or genius or wise is always nice to distinguish and differentiate effortlessly the virtues from the vice…

— Anuj Somany

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

— William Shakespeare

A vice sanctioned by the general opinion is merely a vice. The evil terminates in itself. A vice condemned by the general opinion produces…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.

— Mason Cooley

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

— Juvenal