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.

No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of helplessness to passion quivering between the poles of good and evil.

As I'm getting older, I'm enjoying my vices so much more because I feel like I've deserved them.

A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.

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

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!

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

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

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

Be at peace with men, at war with their vices.

He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish and prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.

Spare the person but lash the vice.

When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves with the credit of having left them.

As virtue is its own reward, so vice is its own punishment.

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.

If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.

Avoid dishonest gain; no price can recompense the pang of vice.

Vices are their own punishment.