Quotes about Vice

It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

Be modest and simple in your deportment, and treat with indifference whatever lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race; obey God.

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

What can it profit the soul that the body should be in good condition, free, and full of life; that it should eat, drink, and act according to its pleasure; when even the most impious slaves of every kind of vice are prosperous in these matters?

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

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.

Simplicity is a great virtue, but oversimplification can actually be a vice, a sign of laziness.

Thus a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but, what is worse, as many masters as he has vices. ST. AUGUSTINE, CITY OF GOD

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue." Rochefoucauld's maxim

An unjust man is detestable to the righteous, and one whose way is upright is detestable to the wicked.

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;

A habit is a stable disposition to act in a certain way, good or evil. Virtues are good habits; vices are bad habits.