Character Quote by Maxwell Maltz

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

— Marquis de Sade

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

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

— Honore de Balzac

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

— Samuel Butler

Your virtue is a vice when you are self-righteous about it.

— Anonymous

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

— Barbara Amiel

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

— William Shakespeare

“Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice.”

— Raheel Farooq

I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.

— Katy Lederer

Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.

— Horace

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

— Dominique Bouhours

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld