Vices

Famous quotes containing the word vices:

“As with a moral view designed
To cure the vices of mankind;
His vein, ironically grave,
Exposed the fool, and lashed the knave;”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

“Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)