Mailer Quote by Norman Mailer

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

— S.A Gambino

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

— Guglielmo Ferrero

“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

“Vices have to masquerade as virtues — lust as love, thinly veiled sadism as military discipline, envy as righteous indignation, domestic tyranny as parental concern.”

— Cornelius Plantinga Jr

“I would sooner have fifty unnatural vices than one unnatural virtue. It is unnatural virtue that makes the world, for those who suffer, such…

— Oscar Wilde

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

— Henry Fielding

“His virtues were so conspicuous that his enemies, unable to overlook them, denied them, and his friends, to whose loose lives they were a…

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Gordon R. Dickson

“A vice is merely a pleasure that someone else has objected to.”

— Robin Skelton

“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