Nine Quote by William Graham Sumner

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

— Samuel Butler

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

— Samuel Butler

“There is no worse penalty for vice than the fact that it is dissatisfied with itself and all its fellows.”

— Seneca

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

— Denis Diderot

Vices are their own punishment

— Aesop

It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue.

— H. L. Mencken

Vices are simply overworked virtues.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Vices shouldn't be safe. They're what remind us we're alive and mortal.”

— Richard Kadrey

The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.

— William Hazlitt

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

— Pleasant Rowland

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

— Augustus Hare