Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of fact; for, whatever the many are seen to do, forthwith obtains the force of custom. But human affairs have scarcely ever been so h...
Friar Laurence: O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought to vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give; nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that fai...
There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. […] There is no fault whi...
The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which w...
The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn’t the real point. But they are more or less ig...
I had plenty of vices growing up.
I think my vice would be outdoing myself.
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
Ice cream is my vice.
Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
I don't define anything I eat as a vice.
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.
For me, cinema is a vice. I love it intimately.
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
