Quotes about vices
vices needs prudent
A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices. Niccolo Machiavelli
vices drink smoke
Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice. Kathy Griffin
vices great-things knows
It is a great thing to know your vices. Marcus Tullius Cicero
vices flattery handmaids
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]
vices flattery handmaids
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .
vices supreme shallowness
The supreme vice is shallowness. Oscar Wilde
vices harm mankind
In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice. Louis Kronenberger
vices virtue
I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice. Michel de Montaigne
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 assuming virtue
There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters with the very vice which he himself has been most outspoken in condemning -- without altogether recognizing it beneath the disguise of ambiguous behavior which it assumes in his presence. Marcel Proust
vices social restriction
It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable. Kenneth Grahame
vices masters valet
The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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 sometimes virtue
Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere. Mason Cooley
vices boring cruelty
Unlike other vices, cruelty, alas, is never boring.
vices three roles
You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days. Michel Patini
vices internet free-speech
I like something with 'vice' in it. Ted Turner
vices scottish virtue
It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices. Menzies Campbell
vices virtue produce
Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues. Plato
vices dishonesty murder
I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature. Laurence Sterne
vices virtue shortcomings
Vices are simply overworked virtues ... Laura Ingalls Wilder
vices corruption members
All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members. Morris West
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 prison crime
Vices are not crimes. Lysander Spooner
vices form miscellaneous
Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms. John F. Kennedy
vices casts
I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices. Juliette Binoche
vices should vice-versa
Photos should suggest a word(s) and vice versa. They should be equal and interchangeable. John Baldessari
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 innocence kind
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery. Ouida
vices usual virtue
When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly. Paul Krugman