The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Rene Descartes

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vicesMake instruments to plague us.

William Shakespeare

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

Seneca

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

Benjamin Franklin

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Walter Bagehot

It is a great thing to know our vices.

Cicero

Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.

J. G. C. Brainard

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

Tallulah Bankhead

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Abraham Lincoln

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Sir Winston Churchill

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Seneca

What once were vices are manners now.

Seneca

What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Hannah Arendt

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

William Paley

No one can shed light on vices he does not have or affliction he has never experienced.

Juan De Mairena

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Of all the vices drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Sir Walter Scott

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

Dorothy Nevill

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Antoine Rivarol

AGE, n. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we have no longer the enterprise to commit.

Ambrose Bierce

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

William G. Golding

Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered: but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battle.

Plutarch

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

Herbert Samuel

HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.

Ambrose Bierce

EAVESDROP, v.i. Secretly to overhear a catalogue of the crimes and vices of another or yourself. A lady with one of her ears applied To an open keyhole heard, inside, Two female gossips in converse free - The subject engaging them was she. 'I think,' said one, 'and my husband thinks That she's a prying, inquisitive minx!' As soon as no more of it she could .

Ambrose Bierce

Of all the creatures that were made, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood he is the only one--the solitary one--that possesses malice. That is the basest of all instincts, passions, vices--the most hateful. He is the only creature that has pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. Also--in all the list he is the only creature that has a nasty mind.

Mark Twain

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Elizabeth Taylor

Why didn't I fall for all the vices of young stardom? My dad would have beaten the s--- out of me if I had gone the drug route. I'm not kidding. Plus, I never really felt the need for it. I mean, I'll go out and party. But I've also had the good sense not to even drink too much. I've also seen my friends get into trouble. I will walk up to a friend and say you're drinking way too much.

Brian Austin Green

Data theft and tampering are emerging vices in storage and backup industry and our system would checkmate it.

Soumitra Agarwal

IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.

Ambrose Bierce

Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.

Peter Lewis Allen

Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.

Thomas Brooks

DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.

Ambrose Bierce

SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.

Ambrose Bierce

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

Peter Kropotkin