Vices Quotes

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.

Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

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.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.