Vices

Famous quotes containing the word vices:

“When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“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)

“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.”
—Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835)