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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
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 motionThat 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
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habitor a mask. — William Hazlitt
Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.
— Augustus William Hare
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
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
