There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
Francis BaconTags: vice
Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?
Hannah MoreTags: curse plague nothing vice indolence worse
Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and human cares, vice and virtue, religion and impiety; they are all the result of petty localities, and artificial situation. One physical want, one severe and abrupt lesson from the colorless and shriveled lip of necessity, is worth all the logic of the empty wretches who have presumed to prate it, from Zeno down to Burgersdicius. It silences in a second all the feeble sophistry of conventional life, and ascetical passion.
Charles MaturinA man treats his own faults as original sin and supposes them scattered everywhere with the seed of Adam. He supposes that men have then added their own foreign vices to the solid and simple foundation of his own private vices. It would astound him to realize that they have actually, by their strange erratic path, avoided his vices as well as his virtues.
G.K. ChestertonTags: virtue vice original-sin
He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.
Iain PearsTags: evil villainy wrongdoing profit vice
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Napoléon BonaparteTo vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
OuidaTags: innocence vice chicanery
Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.
François de La RochefoucauldThe monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maiden's?
Umberto EcoTags: lust sin misogyny hypocrisy homosexuality vice monks pedophilia
Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.
Yevgeny ZamyatinTags: style beauty virtue balance harmony ugly vice
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