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Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.
— William Graham Sumner
The gods are fair, and they use our little vices to punish us
— William Shakespeare
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.
— Kenneth Grahame
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.
— Henry David Thoreau
If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.
— Jean Rostand
We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
— Holbrook Jackson
Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.
— Pleasant Rowland
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.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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.
— Blaise Pascal
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If our life is to resemble the gospel, we must shun, not merely the grosser vices, but everything that would hinder our perfect conformity to Christ.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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?
— Alexander The Great
We're all servants. Some to our fellow men. Some to our vices.
— S. S. Van Dine
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.
— Lyman Beecher
Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.
— Michel De Montaigne
If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
— John Churton Collins
Not to know how to deny our soul its own wishes, is to foment a very hot-bed of vices.
— Philip Neri
When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.
— Luc De Clapiers
Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.
— Saint Augustine
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.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Manchester has everything but good looks ... , the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
— A.J.P. Taylor
High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is our own.
— Michel De Montaigne
You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
— Saint Augustine
When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.
— Maxwell Maltz
What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We never like the smell of our own vices in other people, Holmes. Ah, let's steer here for a drink or two," Lowell suggested.
— Matthew Pearl
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
— Saint Augustine
Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.
— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
Neither our vices nor our virtues further the poem.
— William Dunbar
Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.
— Henry David Thoreau
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vicesMake instruments to plague us. — William Shakespeare
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
One way or another we all work for our vice.
— Ben Maddow
