Character Quote by Marquis de Sade

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

— Marquis de Sade

“Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our…

— Aristotle

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

— Guglielmo Ferrero

“Show me a man without vice and I'll show you one without virtue!”

— Pittacus Lore

“In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. Marquis de Sade”

— S.A Gambino

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

— Abraham Lincoln

“Man was created with an aspiration for significance, which is a virtue. Man can pervert that drive into a lust for power, which is…

— R.C. Sproul

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

— Joseph Joubert

“Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely difficult path of perfection, but sin and vice…

— José Saramago

“We do not despise all those with vices, but we do despise all those without a single virtue.”

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

“The Sage desires only one thing, virtue, and he is cautious about only one thing, vice. He is the same in every circumstance because…

— Donald J. Robertson

“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