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Quotes About Vice

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
~ Horace
It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.
~ Hosea Ballou
I have become fixed in my customary vices.
~ Unknown
There are worse forms of prostitution than whoring. -Inspector John Rebus
~ Ian Rankin
Junkie whores on both sides of Calumet clung to the fetid doorways and rotted stoops like painted lice to a filthy crotch.
~ Iceberg Slim
croak us for free. He'd suck Nino's ass with a straw.
~ Iceberg Slim
Sentirse importante es un vicio, no una virtud, no importa lo escondido que está como participación en algo noble.
~ Idries Shah
Sentirse importante es un vicio, no una virtud, no importa lo escondido que esté como participación en algo noble.
~ Idries Shah
Haciendo algunas reflexiones rápidas sobre el carácter del infantil creador, que debía aún, ¡ay!, durante mucho tiempo, hacer sufrir a la humanidad (la eternidad es larga), bien con las crueldades ejercidas o bien con el innoble espectáculo de los chancros que produce un gran vicio, cerré los ojos, como un hombre ebrio, al pensar que tenía tal ser por enemigo, y reemprendí, con tristeza, mi camino por el dédalo de calles.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
Vosotros, que pasáis por este puente, no prosigáis. El crimen y el vicio habitan aquí; un día, sus amigos aguardaron en vano a un joven que había cruzado la puerta fatal.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
~ Confucius
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
~ Cyril Connolly
We pay for vice by the knowledge that we are wicked; we pay for pleasure when we find out too late that we are nothing.
~ Cyril Connolly
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
~ Horace
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.
~ Pamela Meyer
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
~ Alexander Pope
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
~ Thomas Malthus
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
~ Daniel Defoe
Religions have always been clearly on to this psycho-therapeutic score. For hundreds of years in the West, Christian art had a very clear function: it was meant to direct us towards the good and wean us off vice.
~ Alain de Botton
Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
~ Abu Bakr
Man has learned how to challenge both Nature and art to become the incitements to vice! His very cups he has delighted to engrave with libidinous subjects, and he takes pleasure in drinking from vessels of obscene form!
~ Pliny the Elder