Vice

(118 votes)   Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

Thornton Wilder
1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright

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(75 votes)   Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

Marquis De Vauvenargues
1715-1747, French Moralist

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(72 votes)   Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends... with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!

Marquis De Sade
1740-1814, French Author

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(54 votes)   A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.

Niccolo Machiavelli
1469-1527, Italian Author, Statesman

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(52 votes)   There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.

William Booth
1829-1912, British Religious Leader, Salvation Army Founder

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(47 votes)   Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(43 votes)   Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

Finley Peter Dunne
1867-1936, American Journalist, Humorist

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(41 votes)   Every vice has its excuse ready.

Publilius Syrus
1st Century BC, Roman Writer

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(38 votes)   Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.

Luis Bunuel
1900-1983, Spanish Film Director

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(34 votes)   Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful -- if strenuously led -- as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(33 votes)   Vice knows that she is ugly, so she puts on her mask.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(32 votes)   Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night.

Marcel Proust
1871-1922, French Novelist

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(30 votes)   The vices of some men are magnificent.

Charles Lamb
1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic

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(28 votes)   What were once vices are the fashion of the day.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(26 votes)   We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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