Quotes About Vices

Egoism is the manipulation of human infantile selfishness, egoism leads humanity to the animal primitivism of instincts and vices in literally everything. Hypocrisy is what remains of a person, a pitiful acting parody of a person. The more a person is afraid, the more selfishness in him.

Human instincts devalue and breed the vices of despair, which are worse than animals.

Lust will die from a decrease in hormones. Anger will die of maturity. Gluttony will die of disease and despair. Pride and vanity will die of loneliness. Despondency will die from being bored. Greed will die of love. Envy will die of humility. Human vices are the folly of youth.

Man lives in illusions in the comedy matrix of his absurd vices and paradoxical instincts.

People are sold their own weaknesses, their sweets, on the market and the exchange of vices, instincts and internal flaws.

The embedded logic is a thread of control of a person by manipulating his instincts and vices.

Thinking is a neural-gene transformation under the influence of instinctual defects and vices, paradoxes like selfishness and self-deception. What shapes the quantum deformations of the future.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Among the vices of democracy one must count the impossibility of someone occupying an important position there without it being his ambition.

We doubt the importance of many virtues as long as we do not come across the contrary vice.

Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people. But those people can fight their unhappiness with society fairly and squarly, and society for its part easily understands and sympathizes with such struggles. My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody.

My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody.

Am I what they call an egoist? Or am I the opposite, a man of excessively weak spirit? I really don't know myself, but since I seem in either case to be a mass of vices, I drop steadily, inevitably, into unhappiness, and I have no specific plan to stave off my descent.

Genius is oftentimes but a poor fool, who clinging to a thing that belongs to no age, Truth, does oftentimes live on a pittance and die in a hospital: but whosoever has the gift to measure aright their generation is invincible —living, they shall enjoy all the vices undetected; and dead, on their tombstones they shall possess all the virtues.

The lustre of a virtuous character cannot be defaced, nor can the vices of a vicious man ever become lucid. A jewel preserves its lustre, though trodden in the mud, but a brass pot, though placed upon the head, is brass still.