The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Rene Descartes

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The passions of the young are vices in the old.
Joseph Joubert

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Elizabeth Taylor

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
Herbert Samuel

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.
John Jewel

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.
Ron White

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
Merle Shain

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
Walter Lippmann

Vices are often habits rather than passions.
Antoine Rivarol

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Charles Dickens

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
Denis Diderot

We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.
Titus Livius

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca