Quotes about vices
vices appearance clergy
It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it. Patrick Henry
vices sincerity worst
The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity. Oscar Wilde
vices virtue spectacular
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices. R. Buckminster Fuller
vices pardon familiar
Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend. Publilius Syrus
vices virtue familiar
We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.
vices virtue excuse
Every vice has its excuse ready.
vices needs prudent
A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices. Niccolo Machiavelli
vices feels huge
The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves. Jean de la Bruyere
vices birth virtue
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them. Moliere
vices harm deliberate
My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one. Natalie Clifford Barney
vices moral judgmental
The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental. Julian Baggini
vices drink smoke
Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice. Kathy Griffin
vices great-things knows
It is a great thing to know your vices. Marcus Tullius Cicero
vices flattery handmaids
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]
vices flattery handmaids
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .
vices virtue rapids
I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me. Henry David Thoreau
vices morality life-is
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
vices virtue vice-and-virtue
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
vices virtue interest
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
vices
What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.
vices way intemperance
Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice. Francis Quarles
vices virtue lost
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. Horace Walpole
vices dollars cynicism
A dollar saved is a dollar earned but seldom vice versa. Evan Esar
vices would-be boring
Life would be pretty boring if we didn't have vices. Erin Heatherton
vices christianity pity
What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity. Friedrich Nietzsche
vices ideals
In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices. Jean Rostand
vices fleeing virtue
Virtue consists in fleeing vice. Horace
vices vain embrace
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.
vices virtue avoiding
Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]
vices problem vice-versa
When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family. Hank Azaria
vices delight sin
Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins. Francis of Assisi
vices corruption members
All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members. Morris West
vices harm mankind
In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice. Louis Kronenberger