Vices Quotes - Page 31

• Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?

  Alexander the Great

  Army, Perfection, Victory

  "Lives". Book by Plutarch translated by Arthur Hugh Clough and John Dryden, 1942.

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• An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Army, Nations

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• Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

  Quintilian

  Mother, Ambition, May

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.26, Delphi Classics

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• Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Jobs, Fear, Hypocrite

  Cakes and Ale (1930) ch. 1

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• You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Faith, Atheism, Vice Versa

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• Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

  Samuel Johnson

  Pride, Men, Haughtiness

  Samuel Johnson (1804). “Miscellaneous and fugitive pieces [chiefly of Johnson, ed. by T. Davies]. By S. Johnson”, p.359

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• Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.

  Elizabeth Carter

  Real, Pride, Inward

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• Vice President Spiro Agnew can not cheat on his score : because all you have to do is look back down the fairway and count the wounded.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, President, Looks

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• I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Nature, Women, Mean

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1803). “The works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: including her correspondence, poems, and essays”, p.28

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• Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary

  William Shakespeare

  Poverty, Sin, Rich

  'King John' (1591-8) act 2, sc. 1, l. 593

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• Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Men, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.134, Harvard University Press

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• When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

  Aristotle

  Class, People, Share

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  People, Giving, May

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Across The Plains”, p.139, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?

  Confucius

  Virtue, Should, Worthy

  Chʻu Chai, Confucius, Mencius (1965). “Lun Yü”, New Hyde Park, N.Y. : University Books

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• It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.

  Seneca the Younger

  Virtue

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• For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.

  Pindar

  Joy, Waiting, Bitter

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• If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

  Thornton Wilder

  Men, Virtue, Danger

  Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.122, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Men, Littles, Way

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• Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Honor, Weakness, Virtue

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• He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Practice, Virtue, Renown

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• Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

  Aristotle

  Party, Believe, Matter

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.184, Aristotle

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• It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

  Eric Hoffer

  Opposites, Virtue, Stalemate

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Blood, Virtue, Capacity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1968). “Nature: With an Introd., a Note on the Text”

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• Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Trying, Might, Virtue

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.158

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• The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Strong, Pride, Men

  Charles de Gaulle (1960). “The Edge of the Sword”, New York : Criterion Books

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