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The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves. (Quote by - Thomas Browne)

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes. (Quote by - Lady Marguerite Blessington)

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it. (Quote by - Confucius)

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? (Quote by - John Churton Collins)

O, what a mansion have those vices got Which for their habitation chose out thee, Where beauty's veil doth cover every blot And all things turns to fair that eyes can see! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. (Quote by - Elizabeth Taylor)

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. (Quote by - George Eliot)

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. (Quote by - Johnny Carson)

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost? (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. (Quote by - Hosea Ballou)

If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history. (Quote by - Phil Donahue)

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues. (Quote by - Plutarch)

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement. (Quote by - Peter Hain)

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)

Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

Vice knows that she is ugly, so she puts on her mask. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

Vices of the time; vices of the man. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)

There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. (Quote by - Edwin Hubbel Chapin)

Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice. (Quote by - Kathy Griffin)

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