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It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.
— Eric Hoffer
But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.
— Edmund Waller
It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
— Seneca The Younger
There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.
— Henry David Thoreau
Adorn thyself with simplicity and modesty and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow
— Marcus Aurelius
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,And vice sometime by action dignified. — William Shakespeare
If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.
— Samuel Smiles
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
There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Virtue humanizes and spiritualizes what is part animal in us. Vice brutalizes what is human and spiritual in us.
— Anthony Esolen
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.
— George William Curtis
Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.
— Ralph Venning
Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.
— John Tillotson
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
He who wishes to preserve, often destroys, so that virtue seems vice, and vice seems virtue.
— Guglielmo Ferrero
Show me a man without vice and I'll show you one without virtue!
— Pittacus Lore
Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.
— Epictetus
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Even if someone does something that brings bad to you,do something good for them and make them feel shy for what they have done to you
— Thiruvalluvar
Why grace was disparaged and redemption faced judgment? Why vice was rewarded and virtue punished?
— Nandini Sahu
In our system of governance, there is no higher virtue than participation and no greater vice than apathy.
— Nick Ragone
The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.
— Charles Caleb Colton
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
— William Hazlitt
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
— Will Durant
No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Because he hates to praise by nameHe praises everybody. Vice
And virtue must look much the same
To one who calls the whole world "nice". — Marcus Valerius Martialis
There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.
— William Hazlitt
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
— Confucius
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
— Samuel Butler
Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.
— Osamu Dazai
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.] — Winston S. Churchill
![Vice And Virtue Quotes By Edward Gibbon: [The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/vice-and-virtue-quotes-by-edward-gibbon-2181545.jpg "Vice And Virtue Quotes By Edward Gibbon: [The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect")
[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.
— Edward Gibbon
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
— Erwin Schrodinger
You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
— Lyman Abbott
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
— Ben Jonson
You are my greatest virtue and my deepest vice.
— Sylvain Reynard
What we're fighting against isn't an out-and-out vice. It's an overgrown, perverted virtue.
— Jared Taylor
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
— Algernon Sidney
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
— Seneca The Younger
Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
— Samuel Johnson
It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.
— Julien Offray De La Mettrie
Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself.
— Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon
Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.
— Max Eastman
Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.
— Jean Racine
What are your chief vices? And virtues? I have no vices. The concept doesn't exist in my vocabulary. My chief virtue is gratitude
— Truman Capote
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
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
— Henry David Thoreau
Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.
— Oscar Wilde
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
— Andre Breton
The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue.
— Fanny Kemble
Pride is both a virtue and a vice.
— Theodore Parker
