A Quote by Francis Quarles
Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.
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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.
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. 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.
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.
If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.
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.
Truly, this vice is never to be compared with any other vice because it surpasses the enormity of all vices.... It defiles everything, stains everything, pollutes everything. And as for itself, it permits nothing pure, nothing clean, nothing other than filth.
Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices thatmay accompany it. Accept no present whatever; let your character in that respect be transparent and without the least speck, for as avarice is the vilest and dirtiest vice in private, corruption is so in public life.
Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times.
[Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.
For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.
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.
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.
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