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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

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

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.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

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.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

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

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

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

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

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.