Character Quote by Walter Raleigh

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

— Samuel Johnson

Our virtues are most often but our vices disguised

— François De La Rochefoucauld

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

— Alexander Pope

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

— Juvenal

Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Brendan Behan

“Some vices delight them as being proofs of their prosperity; it seems the part of a man who is very lowly and despicable to…

— Seneca

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

— Plutarch