Top 76 Quotes About Virtues And Vices
#2. 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
#4. People don't have their virtues and vices in sets: they have them anyhow: all mixed.
George Bernard Shaw
#5. 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
#6. Unless we suppress our conscience, we naturally know basic moral truths. General virtues and vices, Thomas Reid wrote, "must appear self-evident to every man who has a conscience, and has taken the pains to exercise this natural power of his mind" ("Of Morals").
Anonymous
#7. Men have discovered their distinctive virtues and vices through grappling with the perennial dilemmas and demands of love, courage, pride, family, and country-the five paths whose proper ordering gives us the key to the secret of happiness for a man.
Waller R Newell
#8. 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
#9. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.
Victor Hugo
#10. The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.
Nelson Mandela
#12. 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
#13. Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
George Bernard Shaw
#14. No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of helplessness to passion quivering between the poles of good and evil.
Roger Rosenblatt
#15. 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
#16. Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a pattern on which to model themselves, and who in consequence without much trouble discover his vices and virtues.
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
#17. Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits.
Raheel Farooq
#18. Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.
Aristotle.
#19. It is not the stars that make us, Dr. Butts, it is circumstance and necessita, the choices we make under pressure; our virtues make us, but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times. Or don't you agree?
Hilary Mantel
#20. It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
Rebecca West
#21. Yes, my particular virtue of being very often objective, and thus sidetracked from thinking about myself, suffers lapses of affirmation, as do all virtues and even all vices.
Fernando Pessoa
#22. So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
Edward Dahlberg
#23. All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#24. He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill
#25. 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.
Marquis De Sade
#26. you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess." "My
Alexandre Dumas
#27. If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#28. Courting is an activity where a man and a woman flaunt their virtues. Dating is an activity where life exposes the other's vices.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#29. No distinction is 'tween man and man,
But as his virtues add to him a glory
Or vices cloud him.
William Habington
#30. 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
#31. To conquer your nature is better than to conquer the whole world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#32. The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues.
John Calvin
#33. Most people indulged in their vices and clung to their virtues based on their responses to temptation and conflict, not because some Other within them drove their behavior.
Dean Koontz
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
Thornton Wilder
#37. It takes a man of unusual character to openly confront his own shortcomings. It's so much more convenient to blame others.
Raymond E. Feist
#38. It's Shakespeare, to have a single family in which human flaws and virtues are on such vivid display - and the constant struggle between those vices and those virtues to try to do good and fulfill one's duty.
Jon Meacham
#39. My vices are the children of a forced solitude that I abhor, and my virtues will necessarily arise when I live in communion with an equal.
Mary Shelley
#40. 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
#42. Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtues, not of vices.
Ayn Rand
#43. Do not say that the past was better than the present. Virtues are what make the good times and vices that go bad.
Augustine Of Hippo
#44. Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.
Giraldus Cambrensis
#45. Conniving at your friends' vices, passing them over, being blind to them and deceived by them, even loving and admiring your friends' egregious faults as if they were virtues -- does not this seem pretty close to folly?
Erasmus
#46. Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
Alexander Pope
#47. Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution.
Alec Guinness
#48. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]
Winston S. Churchill
#50. Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it. Neither, on the other hand, is there any special grace in ugliness. Art is only utterance. It must express something; and the vital question is, what does it express?
Lewis Foreman Day
#51. The universe is all about balance. The forces of light and darkness are meant to keep a check on one another. If one becomes too powerful and starts overrunning the other, that balance will be upset. For the tyranny of virtue is as unbearable as the stranglehold of vice.
Shatrujeet Nath
#52. Jehovah was not a moral god. He had all the vices and he lacked all the virtues. He generally carried out all his threats, but he never faithfully kept a promise.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#53. When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.
Luc De Clapiers
#54. 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
#55. Virtues are vices now, and death is the cost of love. Not the death of his body. His body was the lie. True death. The death of his humanity. The death of his soul.
Rick Yancey
#56. 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
#57. So what the hell's wrong with me?" Nyx eased off the marble slab.
"Besides your deviant moral flexibility and severe phobia of emotional commitment?" Yahfia asked.
"I consider those virtues," Nyx said.
Kameron Hurley
#58. 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
#59. We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.
G.K. Chesterton
#60. It is easier to get on with vices than with virtues. The vices, accommodating by nature, help each other, are full of mutual indulgence, whereas the jealous virtues combat and annihilate each other, showing in everything their incompatibility and their intolerence
Emil Cioran
#61. Qualities that the world considers virtues will lead a leader to ruin, while those regarded as vices will often bring safety and prosperity. Good leadership requires a prince to "know how to do evil.
Ross King
#62. Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purposes from the vices, no less than the virtues of Kings.
Charles Caleb Colton
#63. Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
Arthur Helps
#64. Of all the weaknesses that beset a man, vanity is the most deadly. For through vanity can a wise man turn to folly.
Raymond E. Feist
#65. [On Las Vegas:] ... The City That Never Sleeps. The City That Sins and Smiles and Lives On the Edge. The city where vices become virtues, become what everyone is here to do.
Karen Kijewski
#66. For as health is but one thing, and has been always the same, whereas diseases are by thousands, besides new and daily additions, so all the virtues that have been ever in mankind are to be counted upon a few fingers, but his follies and vices are innumerable, and time adds hourly to the heap.
Jonathan Swift
#67. one who possessed Beauty without Vanity,"' he said aloud to Barnabas. '"Strength without Insolence, / Courage without Ferocity, / And all the virtues of Man without his Vices.
Jan Karon
#68. Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and of acquiring all virtues; for the way to become perfect is to live in the presence of God.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#69. Character is the sum of one's good habits (virtues) and bad habits (vices). These habits mark us and affect the ways in which we respond to life's events and challenges. Our character is our profile of habits and dispositions to act in certain ways.
Thomas Lickona
#70. 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
#71. We imply, and often believe, that habitual vices are exceptional single acts, and make the opposite mistake about our virtues - like the bad tennis player who calls his normal form his 'bad days' and mistakes his rare successes for his normal. I
C.S. Lewis
#72. You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess.
Alexandre Dumas
#73. It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.
Walter Raleigh
#74. We should be carefree with our bodies and prudish with our brains, not the contrary. How virtuous we are with our flesh, and yet the first foul thought that comes our way is invited to the depths of our soul.
Anthony Marais
#76. His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
Orson Scott Card
