Absolutes Quote by Samuel Butler

Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.

— Samuel Beckett

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

— Aristotle

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

— Charles Caleb Colton

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.

— Honore de Balzac

Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.

— Horace

Most virtue lies between two vices.

— Horace

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

— Barbara Amiel

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

— Katy Lederer

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

— Adam Smith

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

— Samuel Butler

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

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