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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.
I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.
Every vice has its excuse ready.
Every vice has its excuse ready.
Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
Idleness is the beginning of all vices.
Idleness is the beginning of all vices.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.