Quotes About Vice

Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

But what matters for questions of virtue and vice is whether your acts are not merely voluntary but also chosen.

Une chose, quand elle n'est pas excessive, est un bien ; du moment qu'elle est plus grande qu'il ne faut, elle devient un mal.

Now that so many of its psychological problems had been removed, humanity was far saner and less irrational. And what earlier ages would have called vice was now no more than eccentricity—or, at the worst, bad manners.

If ever human features bespoke vice of the most malignant type, they were certainly those of Enoch J. Drebber, of Cleveland.

He stopped smoking at least once a month. He went through with it like the solid citizen he was: admitted the evils of tobacco, courageously made resolves, laid out plans to check the vice, tapered off his allowance of cigars, and expounded the pleasures of virtuousness to every one he met. He did everything, in fact, except stop smoking.

Honestly, I think that the sense of humor of the people that TALK about having a 'sense of humor' is a worse vice than drinking.

Depravity and decadence are two sides of the same coin.

He who hates vice hates men.

C. S. Lewis] showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.

It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?

Cel mai puternic bastion al viciului din lumea noastra, nu este viata nelegiuita a pacatosilor abandonati sau a proscrisilor degenerati, ci o viata care pare virtuoasa, onorabila si nobila, dar în care este nutrit un pacat, este îngaduit un viciu... În felul acesta, geniul, talentul, simpatia si chiar faptele generoase si amabile pot deveni momeli ale lui Satana pentru a ademeni sufletele în prapastia ruinei.

Una speranza, a volte, indebolisce le coscienze, come un vizio.

Dac-ai avea curajul s?-?i exprimi dorin?a cea mai secret?, ai spune: A? vrea s? fi inventat toate viciile." <3

Viciul regretului, nici m?car nu m? pot l?uda c? l-am dobândit prin propriile mele decepÅ£ii. M? precede, face parte din patrimoniul tribului meu. Asta da moÅŸtenire, inaptitudinea la iluzie!

To have opinions is inevitable, is natural; to have convictions is less so. Each time I meet someone who has convictions, I wonder what intellectual vice, what flaw has caused him to acquire such a thing. However legitimate this question, my habit of raising it spoils the pleasure of conversation for me, gives me a bad conscience, makes me hateful in my own eyes.

The best of myself, that point of light which distances me from everything, I owe to my infrequent encounters with a few bitter fools, a few disconsolate bastards, who, victims of the rigor of their cynicism, could no longer attach themselves to any vice.

Lucidity is the only vice which makes us free—free in a desert.

Lucidity is the only vice which make us free - free in a desert.

Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to the contemplation of her own substance, as if awakened from deepest sleep, opens those eyes which all possess but few use, and sees in herself a ray of that light which is the true image of the angelic beauty communicated to her, and of which she then communicates a faint shadow to the body.

It is very questionable in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And… moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.

The superstitious, who know how to reprove vices rather than how to teach virtues, and who strive, not to lead people by reason, but to restrain them by fear in such a way that they flee what is bad rather than love the virtues, simply intend all other people to be as miserable as they are, and so it is not surprising that they are for the most part irksome and hateful to human beings.