I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices.
Juliette Binoche

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

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
Rebecca West

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

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
Lord Chesterfield

Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
Marquis de Sade

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.
Konrad Lorenz

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
Marquis de Sade

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
Charles Caleb Colton

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
Walter Scott

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

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
Juvenal

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
Theodore Roosevelt

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
R. Buckminster Fuller

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
Edward Dahlberg

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.
William Falconer