Character Quote by Samuel Johnson

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Abraham Lincoln

“It is not true that men never change; they change for the worse, as well as for the better. It is not true they…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The morals of men are more governed by their pursuits than by their opinions. A type of virtue is first formed by circumstances, and…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

“because men that are free,well born,well bred,and conversant in honest companies have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions,and withdraws…

— Rabelais Francoise

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

— Juvenal

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

— Hugh Walpole

Our virtues are most often but our vices disguised

— François De La Rochefoucauld

It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.

— Luc de Clapiers

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.

— Fulton J. Sheen

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

— Alexander Pope