There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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.
It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.
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.
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices.
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as vices, by their effects, until after they have been practised for many years; perhaps for a lifetime.
Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.
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.
Human depravity originates in the vices of political constitution.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!
Moliere exaggerates common vices of mankind: lust, greed, misanthropy, hypocrisy. We all have a touch of these.
I had plenty of vices growing up.
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
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.
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.
I didn't have any vices before the Internet. There are a lot of cracks in the day, moments where you don't know what to do next, so you have a little hole where you look at your phone. You want something that will mean you're not alone in that moment.
