Some famous quotes on vice:
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
~Oscar Wilde
Idleness is the beginning of all vices.
~Old Proverb on vice
He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.
~Oscar Wilde
This is the great vice of academic-ism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.
~Lionel Trilling
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
~Francis Bacon, Sr.
Christianity gave Eros poison to drink: he did not die of it but degenerated – into vice.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, “He who hates vice hates mankind.”
~W. MacNeile Dixon
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
~Samuel Butler
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
~Adam Smith
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
~Quentin Crisp
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
~William Hazlitt
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
~William Hazlitt
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
~Cyril Connolly
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
~Voltaire
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
~Rutherford B. Hayes
Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
~Lyman Abbott
As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
~Albert Einstein
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
~Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
~Alexander Pope
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
~Seneca
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
~ Edmund Burke
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
~Confucius
Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
~Victor Cousin
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