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Though a man cannot abstain from being weak, he may from being vicious. - Joseph Addison 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 If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner. - Francis Bacon It will be found a work of no small difficulty to dispossess a vice from the heart, where long possession begins to plead prescription. - Francis Bacon Vices of the time; vices of the man. [Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.] - Francis Bacon, Humble Submission and Supplication to the Lords of Parliament It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice. - Hosea Ballou Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything. - Honore de Balzac As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice. - Isaac Barrow Vice gets more in this vicious world Than piety. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Love's Cure (act II, sc. 1) The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them. - Henry Ward Beecher The end of a dissolute life is most commonly a desperate death. - Bion of Smyrna The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves. - Sir Thomas Browne It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "No room for your ladyship; pass on." - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton 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 George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear. - Edmund Burke Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. - Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France So in the wicked there's no vice of which the saints have not a spice. - Samuel Butler (1) Ah, Vice! how soft are thy voluptuous ways! While boyish blood is mantling, who can 'scape The fascination of thy magic gaze? - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) But all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Vice, that digs her own voluptuous tomb! - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (l. 621) The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it. - Thomas Carlyle Displaying page 1 of 5 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5
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