Our vices and virtues
spring from one root.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our very defects
are but shadows of our virtues.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every life is a march from innocence,
through temptation, to virtue or vice.
-Lyman Abbott
The vices and virtues
are all put in motion by interest.
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Virtue: climbing a hill.
Vice: running down.
-Chinese Proverb
Virtue is the health.
Vice is the sickness.
-Francesco Petrarch
Virtue is the beauty
and vice is the deformity.
-Socrates
Virtue has a veil,
vice a mask.
-Victor Hugo
Hypocrisy sets us on an endeavour
to avoid censure by concealing our vices
under an appearance of their opposite virtues
-Henry Fielding
To a heart unacquainted with her,
Vice is ever more dangerous
when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue.
-Matthew Lewis
Vice can never know itself and virtue,
but virtue knows both itself and vice.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prosperity doth bets discover vice,
but adversity doth best discover virtue.
-Francis Bacon
One virtue can stand against a thousand vices.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
A few vices are sufficient
to darken many virtues.
-Plutarch
Virtue seeks the greatest distance from vice.
-Edward Counsel
The absence of vice is a step toward virtue,
not virtue itself.
-B. K. S. Iyengar
The excess of a virtue
is a vice.
-Aristotle
Weakness is more opposite to virtue
than vice itself.
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself
with the antidote.
-Benjamin Franklin
The superior man thinks of virtue;
the small man thinks of comfort.
-Confucius
The greatest minds
are capable of the greatest vices
as well as the greatest virtues.
-Rene Descartes
Search others for their virtues,
thyself for thy vices.
-Benjamin Franklin
Accept our fault
so too our virtue
-The Oculatum
By the virtue of one,
thousands may be saved, liberated;
by the vice of one,
thousands may be lost.
-Gujerati Saying
The virtues of society
are the vices of saints.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is only one virtue and only one sin
for the soul on the path:
virtue is when he is conscious of God
and sin is when he is not.
-Abu Hashim Madoni
