Browsing Topic Best Vices Quotes

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

It is always one’s virtues and not one’s vices that precipitate one into disaster.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue – and not a vice – to love myself, since I am a human being too.

A fairytale is when you marry a frog and it turns out to be a princess. Reality is vice versa.

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.

Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

The more I have deep love and compassion for my earth and my fellows, the more love and compassion I have for myself, and vice versa.

Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don’t share ideas.

The ultimate law of language is, dare we say, that nothing can ever reside in a single term. This is a direct consequence of the fact that linguistic signs are unrelated to what they designate and that, therefore, ‘a’ cannot designate anything without the the aid of ‘b’ and vice versa, or, in other words, that both have value only by the difference between them.

Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices

No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the corner. For them, food is the music inside the body and music is the food inside the heart. Amore or Pyar makes every man a poet, a princess of peasant girl if only for second eyes of man and woman meets.

Pride is the king of vices…it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul…other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as wantonness destroys chastity; greed destroys temperance; anger destroys gentleness; but pride destroys all virtues.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

Our vices are attempts to combine self-medication and enjoyment.

Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of Vice President Maduro.

There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.