Character Quote by Thomas Paine

“We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice, but the vice that…

— Thomas Paine

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

— William Shakespeare

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

— Honore de Balzac

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same…

— William Hazlitt

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Marquis de Sade

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

— Samuel Butler

Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.

— Dominique Bouhours

Most virtue lies between two vices.

— Horace

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

— Alexander Pope

We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld