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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. — John Donne

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. — Jules Verne

It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man. — Mahatma Gandhi

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. — Benjamin Franklin

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. — Pierre Corneille

Of all the weaknesses that beset a man, vanity is the most deadly. For through vanity can a wise man turn to folly. — Raymond E. Feist

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. — Jonathan Swift

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner. — Francis Bacon

Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell. — Colum McCann

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is. — Samuel Butler

No man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters. — William Faulkner

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. — Richard Whately

No distinction is 'tween man and man,
But as his virtues add to him a glory
Or vices cloud him. — William Habington

Vices of the time; vices of the man. — Francis Bacon

Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust. — Antonio Gramsci

You are young, Father Iron Horse, and you have a young man's vices. Certainty. Shortsightedness. Contempt for pragmatism. — Mary Doria Russell

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic. — Edmund Burke

Umman Kudu: scissors-line of jaw muscles, chin like a boot toe - a man to be trusted because the captain's vices were known. — Frank Herbert

For there's no motion
That tends to vice in man, but I affirm
It is the woman's part. — William Shakespeare

Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue. — Josh Billings

And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices. — George Orwell

Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it. — Samuel Beckett

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself. — Philip Sidney

A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy. — Raymond Chandler

The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice. — Winston Churchill

A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever. — Mark Twain

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

Soldiers have many vices, but vanity is not amongst them. How could it be? What man is going to worry about his hair when he might lose his head? — Sharon Kay Penman

The vices and moral weakness of man are not invincible: Man is perfectible, or in other words, susceptible of perpetual improvement. — Thomas Robert Malthus

No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least. — Horace

Any man without a woman is incomplete, and vice-versa she's obsolete. — Kool Moe Dee

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones. — Bret Harte

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit
or a mask. — William Hazlitt

Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild. — Augustus William Hare

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. — Plutarch

This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Man should rule with computers, not vice versa. — Leonard J. V. Compagno

It takes a man of unusual character to openly confront his own shortcomings. It's so much more convenient to blame others. — Raymond E. Feist

Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices. — Richard Whately

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable. — Samuel Johnson

An evil man without vices was the most dangerous of all. — Anand Neelakantan

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle. — Thornton Wilder

I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant. — Albert Camus

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues. — Abraham Lincoln

I do not hate the man, but his vices. — Martial

Courting is an activity where a man and a woman flaunt their virtues. Dating is an activity where life exposes the other's vices. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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