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But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.
— Edmund Waller
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
— Dorothy Parker
It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
— Seneca The Younger
Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.
— Samuel Johnson
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
The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.
— Jean De La Bruyere
The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.
— William Graham Sumner
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
— Samuel Butler
The story in that book of yours comes down to a sudden slipup caused by two great vices: women and laziness.
— Kamel Daoud
My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.
— Sergio Leone
Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
What is pity but the vice of kindness.
— Emile M. Cioran
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
— St. Jerome
The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.
— Nelson Mandela
There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.
— Blaise Pascal
He thought of the old commonplace about how giving up vices didn't make you live longer, but just made it feel as though you were living longer.
— John Connolly
The little vices of the great must needs be accounted very great.
— Publilius Syrus
Avarice is rarely the vice of youth ...
— Sophia Lee
Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.
— Charles Spurgeon
Ambition ... the original of vices;Mother of hypocrisy, parent of envy, engineer of deceit — Ernest Hemingway,
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
Manchester has everything but good looks ... , the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
— A.J.P. Taylor
Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
— Alexander Pope
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
— Honore De Balzac
He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing but heaven is impregnable to vice.
— Thomas Paine
This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
People make institutions, not vice versa.
— Shere Hite
Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money. (64)
— Mary Doria Russell
There are many vices which are not believed because of their magnitude ...
— Delarivier Manley
Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.
— Bernard-Joseph Saurin
At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined.
— Philip Neri
The Vice-President is supreme boss of the Senate.
— Sarah Palin
Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.
— Kenneth Minogue
Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.
— Samuel Daniel
When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism.
— Paul Simon
Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
— Honore De Balzac
Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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
Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.
— Epictetus
I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me.
— Henry David Thoreau
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
I like something with 'vice' in it.
— Ted Turner
Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.
— Ambrose Bierce
If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.
— Michael Kinsley
Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
— Arthur Helps
Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
— John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
— John Dryden
Vices are often habits rather than passions.
— Antoine Rivarol
A true gentleman has no vices, but he allows you your own.
— Michael Shaara
We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.
— Publilius Syrus
When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.
— Luc De Clapiers
Plays ... Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa!
— Tom Stoppard
There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."
— William Macneile Dixon
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habitor a mask. — William Hazlitt
Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.
— Ruth Gordon
I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
— Michel De Montaigne
Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.
— John Arbuthnot
Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety.
— John William Fletcher
Most virtue lies between two vices.
— Horace
Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.
— Aristotle.
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.
— Augustus William Hare
Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.
— William Hazlitt
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Right now, I'm very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.
— Johnny Galecki
If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.
— Saint Augustine
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
— Benjamin Franklin
