Quotes about vice
vices sickness virtue
Virtue is health, vice is sickness. Petrarch
vice
Without better economic opportunity, you can't have better public security and vice versa.
vices sometimes virtue
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. John Calvin
vices social restriction
It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable. Kenneth Grahame
vices cures endure
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure. Livy
vices affair virtue
Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue. Lyndon B. Johnson
vices speak accusation
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 Epictetus
vices hindsight historian
Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice. Hilary Mantel
vices masters valet
The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
vices prison crime
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few. Benjamin Disraeli
vice virtue weapon wounds
Your virtue is your shield; your vice is the weapon that inflicts wounds on you. Sathya Baba
vices virtue rapids
I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me. Henry David Thoreau
vices morality life-is
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
vices would-be boring
Life would be pretty boring if we didn't have vices. Erin Heatherton
vices explanation
The American vice is explanation. Gore Vidal
vices virtue vice-and-virtue
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
vices virtue interest
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
vices impossible human-nature
Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human Nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices? George Washington
vices christianity pity
What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity. Friedrich Nietzsche
vices delight sin
Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins. Francis of Assisi
vices ideals
In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices. Jean Rostand
vices fleeing virtue
Virtue consists in fleeing vice. Horace
vices vain embrace
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.
vices virtue avoiding
Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]
vices problem vice-versa
When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family. Hank Azaria
vices morality virtue
Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices. George Bernard Shaw
vices sake
Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake. Cassandra Clare
vices feels huge
The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves. Jean de la Bruyere
vices virtue calculations
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice. Joseph Joubert
vices birth virtue
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them. Moliere
vices cost virtue
It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue. H. L. Mencken
vices virtue sexuality
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.
vices way intemperance
Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice. Francis Quarles