A Quote by Francis Bacon
Vices of the time; vices of the man.
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Of all vices take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits of disordered affections--this disorders, nay, banishes reason; other vices but impair the soul--this demolishes her two chief faculties, the understanding and the will; other vices make their own way--this makes way for all vices; he that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.
If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as vices, by their effects, until after they have been practised for many years; perhaps for a lifetime.
I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.
Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
We all have our vices, you know. One of my vices is ice cream.
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times.
[Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.
His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others it is our follies and vices that we behold.
The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success.
Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.
Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.
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