A Quote by Saint Augustine

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

Saint Augustine

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Saint Augustine
Roman - Saint
354 - 430

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

Saint Augustine

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

When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.

Saint Augustine

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

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

Devendra Banhart

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

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

Francis Quarles

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.

C. S. Lewis

The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.