Quotes About Vices

when brought into contact with the empire, picked up all the vices of its decaying civilisation without losing those of his original barbarism. It is not without some reason that the doings of Gaiseric have left their mark on the history of language in the shape of the modern word ' Vandalism.

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.

When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.

The virtues and the vices are all put in motion by interest.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves with the credit of having left them.

If individuals have no virtues, their vices may be of use to us.

If a man has no vices, he's in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

The vices of authority are chiefly four: delays, corruption, roughness and facility. Francis Bacon

The vices of authority are chiefly four: delays, corruption, roughness and facility. Francis Bacon More

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vicesAre fathered by our heroism. VirtuesAre forced upon us by our impudent crimes.These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

The lessons of history were hard to ignore. Every democracy ever known had failed, beginning with the Greeks twenty-four centuries earlier. They had succumbed, one by one, to all the well-known vices of the people: corruption, greed, lust, ethnic hatred, distractibility, or simply a fatal indifference.

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.

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

Whatever vices and corruptions men see in the lives of their ministers will not be attributed to the depravity of their old nature which still abides in them, but to the gospel.

for monarchy easily becomes tyranny, aristocracy easily becomes oligarchy, and democracy easily converts to anarchy. Thus anyone organizing a government according to one of the good forms does so for but a short time, because no precaution will prevent it from slipping into its opposite, so closely are the virtues and vices of the two related.

They had generally acquired some of the vices of civilization, but none of the virtues, except in individual cases.

Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

Let us never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it if something threatens are head or our purse! Let us think only of that which threatens the soul.

Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.