Absolutes Quote by Samuel Beckett

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is.

— Samuel Butler

One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man…

— Charles M. Blow

Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven…

— William Hazlitt

Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

— Aristotle

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

— Marquis de Sade

“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

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

— Katy Lederer

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

— George Bernard Shaw

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

— Joseph Joubert

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

— Alexander Pope

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

— Samuel Butler