Vices Quotes - Page 39

• The American vice is explanation.

  Gore Vidal

  Explanation

  Gore Vidal (1982). “Pink triangle and yellow star, and other essays (1976-1982)”

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• Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Past, Energy, Aristocracy

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XI, 1840.

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• In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.

  Jean Rostand

  Ideals

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• There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa.

  Robert Breault

  Wise, Philosophical, Vice Versa

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• Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Psychology, Idleness

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• Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Two, Virtue

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• What once were vices are manners now.

  Seneca the Younger

  Manners

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• Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

  Seneca the Younger

  Dream, People, Waking

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• Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.

  Seneca the Younger

  Drunkenness

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• Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hate, Men

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• I do not hate the man, but his vices.

  Martial

  Hate, Men, Hatred

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• The little vices of the great must needs be accounted very great.

  Publilius Syrus

  Needs, Littles

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• It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

  Jonathan Swift

  Sarcasm, Men, Praise

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.612

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• When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Running, Common, Consent

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.319

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• Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Suffering, Virtue

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.246

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• Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.

  Samuel Johnson

  Responsibility, Men, Miserable

  Samuel Johnson (1856). “Rasselas”, p.48

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• Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Wife, Cards

  Samuel Johnson (1798). “Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.390

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• Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

  George Santayana

  Genius, Rebellious, Sanctity

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.120, Рипол Классик

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• So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.

  Boethius

  Good Luck, Men, Thinking

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• As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Animal, Vanity, Tails

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: Complete & Illustrated”, p.939, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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• Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.

  Dorothy Parker

  Nice, Virtue, Liquor

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• What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

  John Milton

  Christian, Evil, Bait

  John Milton (2016). “Areopagitica and Other Prose Works”, p.13, Courier Dover Publications

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• Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.

  Mason Cooley

  Giving, Literature, Pleasure

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• Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Marriage, Choices, Spirit

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Top Complete Works Collection”, p.1833, 谷月社

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• Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Looks, Tricks, Dare

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.121

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