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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents. -- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
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
The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices. -- Nelson Mandela
Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. -- Victor Hugo
With ancient history writers most immediately in view, the author indicates "tendency to look to the virtues and vices of individuals when seeking causes. -- Peter Heather
Try, start always at home. This is my encouragement to all writers, start at home. All virtues and vices begin at home, and then spread abroad. -- Maya Angelou
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. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa. -- Samuel Butler
It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster. -- Rebecca West
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. -- Winston Churchill
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. -- Will Durant
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. -- Barry Goldwater
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. -- Algernon Sidney
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. -- William Hazlitt
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue. -- Andre Breton
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained. -- Lyman Abbott
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. -- David Hume
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice. -- Quintilian
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice. -- Erwin Schrodinger
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. -- Edmund Burke
Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue? -- Edgar Rice Burroughs
I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions. -- Deborah Sampson
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. -- John Jewel
Vices are simply overworked virtues ... -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues. -- Kenneth Minogue
Our vices are the excesses of our virtues. -- Pleasant Rowland
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! -- Charles Dickens
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. -- Benjamin Franklin
Neither our vices nor our virtues further the poem. -- William Dunbar
Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues. -- Plato
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues. -- Plutarch
The virtues of society are the vices of the saints. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance. -- Luc de Clapiers
Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices. -- Richard Whately
Some, by admiring other men's virtues, become enemies to their own vices. -- Bias of Priene
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues. -- Henry Fielding
The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues. -- Antonio Machado
Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs. -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues. -- Samuel Johnson
Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices. -- George Bernard Shaw
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. -- Denis Diderot
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln
The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices -- Paul Valery
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. -- Walter Lippmann
To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues. -- Edward Gibbon
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. -- Rene Descartes
all the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity. -- St. Catherine of Siena
You who make the laws, the vices and the virtues of the people will be your work. -- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices. -- Andre Gide
If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better. -- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Beware of knowing your virtues; you may lose them. Beware of knowing your vices; you may forgive them. -- James Richardson
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have. -- Alexander Pope
We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this. -- Holbrook Jackson
His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life. -- Orson Scott Card
If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? -- John Churton Collins
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.] -- Winston S. Churchill
No distinction is 'tween man and man, But as his virtues add to him a glory Or vices cloud him. -- William Habington
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
Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues. -- Arthur Helps
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. -- Jonathan Swift
If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle. -- Thornton Wilder
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. -- George Bernard Shaw
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial. -- R. H. Tawney
The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies. -- William Hazlitt
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
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 vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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