Achievement Quote by Plutarch

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

— Jonathan Swift

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

— Juvenal

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting,…

— Walter Bagehot

Our virtues are most often but our vices disguised

— François De La Rochefoucauld

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

— Plutarch

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and…

— John Calvin

“You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not,…

— Alexandre Dumas

“Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practised in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great…

— M.A.Kelty

The vices of some men are magnificent.

— Charles Lamb

Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach