Character Quote by Plutarch

We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does…

— Anonymous

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

— Thornton Wilder

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

— Juvenal

Our virtues are most often but our vices disguised

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.

— Augustus William Hare

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

— Samuel Johnson

We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

— Henry Fielding

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

— Brendan Behan