Advantage Quote by William Falconer

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

— Walter Bagehot

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

— Ann Radcliffe

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the…

— Samuel Johnson

I have found that people who can successfully resist temptation invariably lead depressingly stunted lives.

— C.D. Payne

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

— Adam Smith

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

— Petrarch

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

— Herbert Spencer

Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It…

— Aldous Huxley

“Most people indulged in their vices and clung to their virtues based on their responses to temptation and conflict, not because some Other within…

— Dean Koontz

Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.

— Charles Fourier

There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.

— Andy Hargreaves

“Avoiding temptation is much easier than resisting it.”

— Elle Meyer