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If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

— Samuel Johnson

The easiest thing of all is to deceive one’s self; for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.

— Demosthenes

Source: The Third Olynthiac

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.

— Benjamin Franklin

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

— Seneca

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

— Samuel Butler

Vice is like a fury to the vicious mind, and turns delight itself to punishment.

— Ben Johnson

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

— George Bernard Shaw

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

— Moliere

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

— René Descartes

It is a great thing to know our vices.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

— Antoine Rivarol

It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

— Abraham Lincoln

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

— Herbert Samuel

Every vice has its excuse ready.

— Publilius Syrus

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

— Plutarch

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

— Bret Harte

Vice knows she’s ugly, so puts on her mask.

— Benjamin Franklin

Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.

— J. G. C. Brainard

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

— Klaus Kinski

Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.

— Blaise Pascal

Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Our virtues are most often but our vices disguised.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

— Denis Diderot

There will be vice as long as there are men.

— Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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