Vices are seldom single. [ Robert Hall ]

Let thy vices die before thee. [ Franklin ]

Idleness is the door to all vices. [ Malebranche ]

Most virtue lies between two vices. [ Horace ]

Vices are learned without a Master. [ Proverb ]

Lordly vices require lordly estates. [ Proverb ]

No distinction is 'tween man and man.
But as his virtues add to him a glory
Or vices cloud him. [ Habbington ]

Most of our evils come from our vices. [ Proverb ]

The vices of some men are magnificent. [ Lamb ]

Pride eradicates all vices but itself. [ Emerson ]

Flattery is the handmaid of the vices. [ Cicero ]

Great men's vices are accounted sacred. [ Proverb ]

Covetousness often starves other vices. [ Proverb ]

Idleness is the parent of all the vices. [ Italian Proverb ]

Our virtues are commonly disguised vices. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Our virtues and vices spring from one root. [ Goethe ]

Our virtues are often but vices in disguise. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us. [ William Shakespeare ]

Vices are often habits rather than passions. [ Rivarol ]

Divine Philosophy, by whose pure light
We first distinguish, then pursue the right;
Thy power the breast from every error frees,
And weeds out all its vices by degrees. [ Juv ]

Hate no one - hate their vices, not themselves. [ Brainard ]

Virtues all agree, but vices fight one another. [ Proverb ]

Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

I will be your friend, but not your vices' friend. [ Proverb ]

There are hypocrites of vices as well as of virtues. [ Duclos ]

What were once vices are now the fashion of the day. [ Seneca ]

Great vices, as well as great virtues, make men famous. [ Proverb ]

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Our virtues would be proud if our vices whipped them not. [ Proverb ]

A monster whose vices are not redeemed by a single virtue. [ Juv ]

Great vices, and great virtues, are exceptions in mankind. [ Napoleon I ]

Search others for their virtues, and thyself for thy vices. [ Fuller ]

Prosperity unmasks the vices; adversity reveals the virtues. [ Diderot ]

Prosperity often best discovers vices, and adversity virtue. [ Proverb ]

For one virtue that makes us walk, how many vices make us run! [ Pichot ]

The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet. [ Goethe ]

Women have fewer vices than men; but they have stronger prejudices. [ Dr. J. V. C. Smith ]

Our vices are like our nails: even as we cut them, they grow again. [ T. Bernard ]

Though vices repel, they do not always separate us from those we love. [ Mme. de Rieux ]

When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we are leaving them. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

He that remembers his virtues too much, bids others think of his vices. [ Proverb ]

Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vices in disguise! [ Lavater ]

Gratitude is the least of virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices. [ Proverb ]

Marriage communicates to women the vices of men, but never their virtues. [ Fourier ]

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. [ Denis Diderot ]

Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance. [ Spu rgeon ]

Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; robes and furred gowns hide all. [ William Shakespeare ]

If, of all vices, avarice is the most generally detested, it is the effect of an avidity common to all men. [ Helvetius ]

The source of all passions is sensitiveness: it is the errors of imagination that transform them into vices. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtues and corrects all the vices. [ Clarendon ]

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice. [ Francis Quarles ]

To attack vices in the abstract without touching persons, may be safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows. [ Junius ]

In witnessing the satisfaction with which some people depreciate us, one would think that their virtues fatten on our vices. [ Pichot ]

No company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. [ Colton ]

Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly - should still be new. [ Goldsmith ]

Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride. [ Emerson ]

A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power. [ Boileau ]

Through tattered clothes small vices do appear: robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw doth pierce it. [ William Shakespeare ]

Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers. [ Helvetius ]

The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn others from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked. [ Bishop Horne ]

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children, and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it. [ Colton ]