Vices Quotes
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
Augustine of Hippo
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
Moliere
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
Lord Chesterfield
There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.
Ron White
For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me I'm great, but tell me that my music is helping save their lives, helping them in the Lord, and helping them end their vices.
Rick Derringer
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
Marquis de Sade
Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?
Peter Kropotkin
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Rene Descartes
I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.
Bram Cohen
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Benjamin Franklin
We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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
We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld