The same vices, which are huge and insupportable in others, we do not feel in ourselves.
Jean de La Bruyere
If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.
Francis Bacon
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.
Honore de Balzac
Vices are their own punishment.
Aesop
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
Joseph Joubert
Men wish to be saved from the mischief of their vices, but not from their vices.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not possible now to keep a young gentleman from vice by a total ignorance of it, unless you will all his life mew him up in a closet and never let him go into company.
John Locke
What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
Plutarch
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Voltaire
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Napoleon
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld