355 Quotes About Vices

But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that is damaging to self or to others, the more "natural" it will both seem and actually be. Spontaneity, left to itself, can begin by excusing bad behavior and end by congratulating vice.

The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

The supreme vice is shallowness.

Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.