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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
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
To conquer your nature is better than to conquer the whole world.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time that allows us to link the mind with the world.
— Daniel Schacter
People always brag about their vices; it is when they begin to brag about their virtues that they become insufferable.
— G.K. Chesterton
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
Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
— George Bernard Shaw
If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.
— William Hazlitt
The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.
— Nelson Mandela
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
Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
People don't have their virtues and vices in sets: they have them anyhow: all mixed.
— George Bernard Shaw
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
I cannot," said he, "expect everyone to have my virtues. It's good enough to meet with my vices ...
— Andre Gide
Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.
— George Bernard Shaw
No distinction is 'tween man and man,But as his virtues add to him a glory
Or vices cloud him. — William Habington
I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
— Andre Gide
You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.
— Kate Douglas Wiggin
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
— Winston Churchill
People without any vices rarely have any virtues either.
— Abraham Lincoln
If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
— John Churton Collins
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
— Rene Descartes
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
— Walter Lippmann
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.] — Winston S. Churchill
Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices.
— Richard Whately
A habit is a stable disposition to act in a certain way, good or evil. Virtues are good habits; vices are bad habits.
— Peter Kreeft
Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
— Orson Scott Card
The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.
— Antonio Machado
Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To each virtue there is an opposing vice; hence the wicked take vices for virtues.
— Saint Nikodimos
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
— Elizabeth Taylor
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
— Charles Dickens
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.
— Dawn Powell
Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.
— Kenneth Minogue
If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
— Thornton Wilder
The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices
— Paul Valery
Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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
To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.
— Edward Gibbon
Do not say that the past was better than the present. Virtues are what make the good times and vices that go bad.
— Augustine Of Hippo
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
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
— Benjamin Franklin
Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
— Arthur Helps
Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
But though he had no striking vices, his virtues were perhaps almost as hard to define.
— Susanna Clarke
Beware of knowing your virtues; you may lose them. Beware of knowing your vices; you may forgive them.
— James Richardson
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
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
Neither our vices nor our virtues further the poem.
— William Dunbar
When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.
— Luc De Clapiers
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
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
— Alexander Pope
Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.
— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
The greatest victories one ever wins over are over his vices.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You who make the laws, the vices and the virtues of the people will be your work.
— Louis Antoine De Saint-Just
