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Vices are their own punishment. - Aesop Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today. - Aristophanes, The Clouds We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. [Lat., De vitiis nostris scalam nobis facimus, si vitia ipsa calcamus.] - Saint Aurelius Augustine (Augustine of Hippo), Sermon 3--De Ascensione Vices of the time; vices of the man. [Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.] - Francis Bacon, Humble Submission and Supplication to the Lords of Parliament Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything. - Honore de Balzac Vice gets more in this vicious world Than piety. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Love's Cure (act II, sc. 1) The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves. - Sir Thomas Browne Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. - Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (l. 621) And last the Vice and Follies of the Age. - Mrs. Susannah Centlivre, Prologue to The Man's Bewitched This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares. - Charles Churchill, The Rosciad (l. 137) Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved. - Charles Caleb Colton Vice stings us, even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us, even in our pains. - Charles Caleb Colton Vice is its own reward. - Quentin Crisp We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. - Denis Diderot The vicious obey their passions, as slaves do their masters. - Laertius Diogenes Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask. - Benjamin Franklin Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful. - Benjamin Franklin What maintains one vice would bring up two children. - Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another. - William Hazlitt (1) This is the danger, when vice becomes a precedent. - Ben Jonson Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.] - Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal), Satires (VIII, 140) We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all those who have not a single virtue. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims (no. 195) Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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