vice Quotes

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from... ...

A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds... ...

The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

Wickedness is nourished by lust.

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

"As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue."

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.