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Tag Name "Vices" (280)

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Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.
Lysander Spooner
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Vices are simply overworked virtues.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Charles Dickens
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Vices are not crimes.
Lysander Spooner
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Vices are their own punishment
Aesop
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
Alexander Pope
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Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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[There is] an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Charles Dickens
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.
Annie Besant
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Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
Lord Chesterfield
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Our virtues live upon our incomes our vices consume our capital.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.
Robert Staughton Lynd
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Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.
Ninon de L'Enclos
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The vices of some men are magnificent.
Charles Lamb
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The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.
Antonio Machado
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Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices thatmay accompany it. Accept no present whatever let your character in that respect be transparent and without the least speck, for as avarice is the vilest and dirtiest vice in private, corruption is so in public life.
Lord Chesterfield
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I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I'll still smoke in a movie. I have other vices, you know, like potato chips and chardonnay - but not together.
Jean Smart
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If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.
Saint Augustine
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Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.
Aristotle
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.
Samuel Johnson
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