Quotes with vices

  • 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.
  • Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
  • I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.
  • Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence.
  • 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.
  • One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.
  • Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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  • Benjamin Franklin Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
    Poor Richards Almanack
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Horace 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.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Abraham Lincoln It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Seneca What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Walter Bagehot 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.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Augustus Hare Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Education must have two foundations - morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Samuel Butler Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Winston Churchill He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib 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.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Mark Twain I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Junius If individuals have no virtues, their vices may be of use to us.
    October 5, 1771
    Junius
    pseudonym of a writer of letters to the Public Advertiser
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  • Jonathan Swift It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Walter Bagehot It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Bill Engvall Left to my own vices, all I would own is a Corvette, and it would be broken down.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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