A Quote by Lysander Spooner

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.

Lysander Spooner

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Lysander Spooner
American - Philosopher
January 19, 1808 - May 14, 1887

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.

Francis Quarles

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

Saint Augustine

But are sailors, frequenters of fiddlers' greens, without vices? No; but less often than with landsmen do their vices, so called, partake of crookedness of heart, seeming less to proceed from viciousness than exuberance of vitality after long constraint: frank manifestations in accordance with natural law.

Herman Melville

Vices of the time; vices of the man.

Francis Bacon

If those persons, who fancy themselves gifted with both the power and the right to define and punish other men's vices, would but turn their thoughts inwardly, they would probably find that they have a great work to do at home; and that, when that shall have been completed, they will be little disposed to do more towards correcting the vices of others, than simply to give to others the results of their experience and observation.

Lysander Spooner

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

Thornton Wilder

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

Saint Augustine

Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.

Maggie Stiefvater

Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.

Michel de Montaigne

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We all have our vices, you know. One of my vices is ice cream.

Devendra Banhart

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.

Seneca the Younger

His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.

Orson Scott Card

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.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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.