Quotes about Vice

The highest good was the virtuous life. Virtue alone is happiness, and vice is unhappiness.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Remove prostitutes from human affairs, and you will destroy everything with lust.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

C. S. Lewis] showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.

Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.

Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper.

Vice never leads to virtue. Hate never promotes love. Cowardice never gives courage. Doubt never inspires faith.

What we call a vice is actually an inability to recognize what has the greatest value.