Quotes about Vices

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property. Votes: 8

Vices are their own punishment Votes: 6

Vices are often habits rather than passions. Votes: 6

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. Votes: 6

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. Votes: 6

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. Votes: 6

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. Votes: 6

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. Votes: 6

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Votes: 6

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. Votes: 6

Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another. Votes: 6

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay. Votes: 6

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome. Votes: 6

Every vice has its excuse ready. Votes: 4

Vices of the time; vices of the man. Votes: 4

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! Votes: 4

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues. Votes: 4

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. Votes: 4

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness. Votes: 4

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. Votes: 4

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. Votes: 4

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. Votes: 4

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. Votes: 4

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps. Votes: 4

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong. Votes: 4

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. Votes: 4

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures. Votes: 4

Vices are not crimes. Votes: 3

Vices are simply overworked virtues ... Votes: 3

Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend. Votes: 3

There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer. Votes: 3

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have. Votes: 3

Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills. Votes: 3

Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy. Votes: 3

Vices and frailties correct each other, like acids and alkalies. If each vicious man had but one vice, I do not know how the world could go on. Votes: 3

There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer. Votes: 3

Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as vices, by their effects, until after they have been practised for many years; perhaps for a lifetime. Votes: 3

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices. Votes: 2

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster. Votes: 2

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil. Votes: 2

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. Votes: 2

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue. Votes: 2

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place. Votes: 2

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form. Votes: 2

Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes. Votes: 2

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime? Votes: 2

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. Votes: 2

Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices. Votes: 2

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born. Votes: 2

As a pastor, I addressed the sorts of issues I see people struggling with most and the issues talked about most directly and most frequently in the New Testament. That leads us to recurring concerns with sexual immorality, relational sins, and vices associated with the breaking of the Ten Commandments. Votes: 2

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it. Votes: 2

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life. Votes: 2

We pardon familiar vices. Votes: 0

Pride eradicates all vices but itself. Votes: 0

My pleasures disappeared with my vices. Votes: 0

Let thy vices die before thee. Votes: 0

Most virtue lies between two vices. Votes: 0

War with vices, but peace with individuals. Votes: 0

I've got two vices: cigarettes and taters. Votes: 0

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices. Votes: 0

The vices of some men are magnificent. Votes: 0

What once were vices are manners now. Votes: 0

Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues. Votes: 0

Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices. Votes: 0

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues. Votes: 0

Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves. Votes: 0

In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices. Votes: 0

Unlike other vices, cruelty, alas, is never boring. Votes: 0

Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices. Votes: 0

Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues. Votes: 0

Neither our vices nor our virtues further the poem. Votes: 0

We can endure neither our vices nor their cure. Votes: 0

Our vices are attempts to combine self-medication and enjoyment. Votes: 0

It is a great thing to know your vices. Votes: 0

I do not hate the man, but his vices. Votes: 0

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. Votes: 0

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed . Votes: 0

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today. Votes: 0

The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives. Votes: 0

Change generally pleases the rich. [Lat., Plerumque gratae divitibus vices.] Votes: 0

It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue. Votes: 0

Life would be pretty boring if we didn't have vices. Votes: 0

The virtues of society are the vices of the saints. Votes: 0

What were once vices are the fashion of the day. Votes: 0

The passions of the young are vices in the old. Votes: 0

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness. Votes: 0

Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection ... Votes: 0

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little. Votes: 0

Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore. Votes: 0

Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital. Votes: 0

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner. Votes: 0

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised. Votes: 0

HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable. Votes: 0

In the end, the sum of my vices is all me. Votes: 0

Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put. Votes: 0

Men love their vices and hate them at the same time. Votes: 0

I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation. Votes: 0

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest. Votes: 0

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices. Votes: 0

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them. Votes: 0

Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance. Votes: 0

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue. Votes: 0

There are many vices which are not believed because of their magnitude ... Votes: 0

Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices. Votes: 0

The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves. Votes: 0

We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar. Votes: 0

The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another. Votes: 0

The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy. Votes: 0

Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices. Votes: 0

The little vices of the great must needs be accounted very great. Votes: 0

When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance. Votes: 0

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little. Votes: 0

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended. Votes: 0

Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent. Votes: 0

Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Votes: 0

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others. Votes: 0

We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues. Votes: 0

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others. Votes: 0

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members. Votes: 0

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. Votes: 0

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues. Votes: 0

The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet. Votes: 0

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. Votes: 0

The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment. Votes: 0

The vices come as passengers, visit us as guest and stay as masters. Votes: 0

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs. Votes: 0

Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves. Votes: 0

California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices ... Votes: 0

When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. Votes: 0

Shun darkness and evil vices for they that embrace them wear off with time! Votes: 0

He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them. Votes: 0

Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight. Votes: 0

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices. Votes: 0

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas. Votes: 0

Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild. Votes: 0

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices. Votes: 0

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues. Votes: 0

A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy. Votes: 0

The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins. Votes: 0

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. Votes: 0

The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues. Votes: 0

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues. Votes: 0

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them. Votes: 0

The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices Votes: 0

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. Votes: 0

To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues. Votes: 0

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents. Votes: 0

If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers. Votes: 0

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. Votes: 0

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever. Votes: 0

An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage. Votes: 0

The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves. Votes: 0

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. Votes: 0

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them. Votes: 0

I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices. Votes: 0

Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Votes: 0

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices. Votes: 0

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature. Votes: 0

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. Votes: 0

You who make the laws, the vices and the virtues of the people will be your work. Votes: 0

all the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity. Votes: 0

Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity. Votes: 0

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency. Votes: 0

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted. Votes: 0

...no man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters. Votes: 0

Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society. Votes: 0

No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced. Votes: 0

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind. Votes: 0

But that woman is an encyclopedia!Of all vices, ancient and modern, and terribly interesting to leaf through! Votes: 0

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself. Votes: 0

Right now, Im very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course. Votes: 0

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.] Votes: 0

Beware of knowing your virtues; you may lose them. Beware of knowing your vices; you may forgive them. Votes: 0

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices. Votes: 0

Right now, I'm very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course. Votes: 0

If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better. Votes: 0

As I'm getting older, I'm enjoying my vices so much more because I feel like I've deserved them. Votes: 0

I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices. Votes: 0

No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least. Votes: 0

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. Votes: 0

Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices. Votes: 0

What I desire most of you, my son, is never to gamble or swear. These are baneful vices. Votes: 0

I'm a sucker for fries. It's definitely one of my biggest vices. My biggest savory vice for sure. Votes: 0

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts. Votes: 0

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable. Votes: 0

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts. Votes: 0

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? Votes: 0

Not to know how to deny our soul its own wishes, is to foment a very hot-bed of vices. Votes: 0

His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life. Votes: 0

First people lose their hair, then their vices, then their motivation. Then a toupee brings it all flowing back. Votes: 0

Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices. Votes: 0

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this. Votes: 0

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices. Votes: 0

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them. Votes: 0

All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage. Votes: 0

All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage." Votes: 0

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be noticed for their vices than not be noticed at all. Votes: 0

Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue. Votes: 0

Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite. Votes: 0

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. Votes: 0

We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy. Votes: 0

One of my last few vices is coffee, but with a spot of almond or soymilk, it's never tasted better! Votes: 0

No distinction is 'tween man and man, But as his virtues add to him a glory Or vices cloud him. Votes: 0

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes. Votes: 0

Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices. Votes: 0

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.] Votes: 0

The sins we do, people behold with optics, Which shew them ten times more than common vices, And often multiply them. Votes: 0

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly Votes: 0

Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats. Votes: 0

A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer. Votes: 0

Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money. Votes: 0

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. Votes: 0

IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices. Votes: 0

If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things. Votes: 0

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle. Votes: 0

Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk. Votes: 0

We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us. Votes: 0

High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light. Votes: 0

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues. Votes: 0

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. Votes: 0

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt. Votes: 0

All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life. Votes: 0

The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices. Votes: 0

Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. Votes: 0

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. Votes: 0

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice. Votes: 0

Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease. Votes: 0

Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time that allows us to link the mind with the world. Votes: 0

Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter. Votes: 0

Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust. Votes: 0

Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices. Votes: 0

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man Votes: 0

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man. Votes: 0

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man." Votes: 0

[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups. Votes: 0

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum. Votes: 0

Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel. Votes: 0

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself. Votes: 0

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence. Votes: 0

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. Votes: 0

It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul. Votes: 0

It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices. Votes: 0

A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from. Votes: 0

What are your chief vices? And virtues? I have no vices. The concept doesn't exist in my vocabulary. My chief virtue is gratitude Votes: 0

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever. Votes: 0

Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices. Votes: 0

It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures. Votes: 0

With ancient history writers most immediately in view, the author indicates "tendency to look to the virtues and vices of individuals when seeking causes. Votes: 0

Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! Votes: 0

The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race. Votes: 0

You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with. Votes: 0

A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy. Votes: 0

Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins. Votes: 0

Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love and become demons. Votes: 0

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known. Votes: 0

The degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you would willingly believe. Votes: 0

Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying. Votes: 0

We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them. Votes: 0

Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature. Votes: 0

You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it. Votes: 0

Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue? Votes: 0

Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice! Votes: 0

The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate. Votes: 0

A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness. Votes: 0

Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial. Votes: 0

Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices. Votes: 0

Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous. Votes: 0

Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices. Votes: 0

Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit. Votes: 0

I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love. Votes: 0

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do. Votes: 0

There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches. Votes: 0

For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort. Votes: 0

But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god. Votes: 0

Try, start always at home. This is my encouragement to all writers, start at home. All virtues and vices begin at home, and then spread abroad. Votes: 0

O Lord, I wish to promote thy holy religion which is dreadfully neglected. I am desirous to save young persons from the vices of the age. Votes: 0

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years. Votes: 0

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. Votes: 0

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. Votes: 0

Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture. Votes: 0

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power. Votes: 0

Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty. Votes: 0

Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean. Votes: 0

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.] Votes: 0

Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new. Votes: 0

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams. Votes: 0

Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. Votes: 0

Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you. Votes: 0

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment. Votes: 0

Nineteen twentieths of [mankind is] opaque and unenlightened. Intimacy with most people will make you acquainted with vices and errors and follies enough to make you despise them. Votes: 0

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft. Votes: 0

I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies. Votes: 0

Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women. Votes: 0

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success. Votes: 0

I don't really believe in vices. I love wine and cheese and chocolate, but they're what make life fun. They're a pleasure and an important part of living. Votes: 0

Maybe it's that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever. Votes: 0

Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out. Votes: 0

The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life. Votes: 0

Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride. Votes: 0

... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery. Votes: 0

To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education. Votes: 0

Life was certainly more entertaining when people were indulging their vices as opposed to going to meetings to indulge in a new vice: discussing their innermost thoughts in public. Votes: 0

The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success. Votes: 0

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous. Votes: 0

Go light on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social life ain't restful. Avoid running at all times. Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you. Votes: 0

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving. Votes: 0

You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess. Votes: 0

From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind. Votes: 0

Jews are a singular confusion "” difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every pleasure, every pain "” nothing is spared them. Votes: 0

Remember: there is no place, no community, no external circumstance that is not serviceable for the battle you have chosen. The exception is only such work as directly serves your vices. Votes: 0

It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices. Votes: 0

If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well Votes: 0

If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well Votes: 0

Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For charity doth not adopt the vices of its objects. Votes: 0

Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree. Votes: 0

Jehovah was not a moral god. He had all the vices and he lacked all the virtues. He generally carried out all his threats, but he never faithfully kept a promise. Votes: 0

Of all the vices incident to man, lying is the most mean, most contemptible; it evinces a very weak, depraved heart, which shrinks at the exposure of motives and of actions. Votes: 0

Allah the Exalted loves him who forgoes worldly life, the Angels love him who rejects the vices, and the Muslims love him who gives up greediness in respect of the Muslims. Votes: 0

Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices Votes: 0

Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself. Votes: 0

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive. Votes: 0

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive. Votes: 0

I'm with someone who's got very high standards, and he doesn't tolerate all these ridiculous vices very easily. That's not reason enough to marry someone, although people have gotten married for less. Votes: 0

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive." Votes: 0

We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot. Votes: 0

If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod. Votes: 0

[On Las Vegas:] ... The City That Never Sleeps. The City That Sins and Smiles and Lives On the Edge. The city where vices become virtues, become what everyone is here to do. Votes: 0

Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it, it will either heighten our virtues, or inflame our vices. Votes: 0

If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education. Votes: 0

The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues. Votes: 0

Whatever vices and corruptions men see in the lives of their ministers will not be attributed to the depravity of their old nature which still abides in them, but to the gospel. Votes: 0

Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they will lose something of their natural turpitude. Votes: 0

The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution. Votes: 0

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being. Votes: 0

My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme. Votes: 0

Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them. Votes: 0

Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others it is our follies and vices that we behold. Votes: 0

A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such nor desire to be; herein consists the heroic spirit of the philosopher. Votes: 0

People either build a castle or a dungeon. The former by their virtues, pull people into positive edifices with gainful impression. The later by their vices, push people into negative huts with painful oppression. Votes: 0

The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them! Votes: 0

Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purposes from the vices, no less than the virtues of Kings. Votes: 0

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires. Votes: 0

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure. Votes: 0

Envy is more irreconcilable than hate. It is the most corroding of all political vices and also a great power in our land. The friends of freedom are content to be envied, but envy not. Votes: 0

Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. Votes: 0

Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear. Votes: 0

The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies. Votes: 0

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself. Votes: 0

A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power. Votes: 0

Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation. Votes: 0

The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn others from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked. Votes: 0