Quotes About Vice

If life doesn't seem livable with the body's nature corrupted, not even with every sort of food and drink and every sort of wealth and every sort of rule, will it then be livable when the nature of that very thing by which we live is confused and corrupted, even if a man does whatever else he might want except that which will rid him of vice and injustice and will enable him to acquire justice and virtue?

Then the good and wise judge whom we are seeking is not this man, but the other; for vice cannot know virtue too, but a virtuous nature, educated by time, will acquire a knowledge both of virtue and vice: the virtuous, and not the vicious, man has wisdom—in my opinion.

pas encore quelle est cette vertu, je demande seulement s'ils s'acquittent bien de leur fonction par la vertu qui leur est propre, et mal par un vice contraire. Certainement.

los viciosos no pueden hacerse viciosos, sin que antes hayan sido virtuosos.

The hatred of truth is a vice [...] From it comes pride and an enthusiasm for disorder.

The only virtue is vice, and the acquisition of power justifies all things.

Rendre la vertu aimable, le vice odieux, le ridicule saillant. Voilà le projet de tout homme qui prend la plume, le pinceau et le ciseau.

Tout a son vrai loyer dans ce monde. Il y a deux procureurs généraux, l'un à votre porte qui châtie les délits contre la société; la nature est l'autre. Celle-ci connaît de tous les vices qui échappent aux lois.

Donde se ve claro cuánto ayude la ociosidad al vicio, y cuán de provecho sea la ocupación a la virtud.

Reading is a vice which can replace all other vices or temporarily take their place in more intensely helping people live, it is a debauchery, a consuming addiction. No, I don't take any drugs, I take books.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair.

Scandal, vice, crime would be played down. Editorials and news stories would be signed. And for the first time, stories of virtue and good will would be featured on the front page.

The abuse of alcohol," Mr. Parrish said in a solemn, preacher-like voice, as he reached for his glass, "is the one thing that puts Man above the animal.

Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

The gospel, as Paul knew, is folly to pagans. Trusting it would appear, not as a virtue, but as a vice. "Faith" of this Pauline sort can therefore come about only in response to the grace and revelation of the God of Abraham, the God who raised Jesus from the dead.

We rise in popwer and make a difference in the world due to what is best about human nature, but we fall from power due to what is worst.

Capitalism, it is said, is a system wherein man exploits man. And communism—is vice versa.

I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.

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

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.