Vices

An army is a nation within a nation; it is one of the vices of our age.

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions.

What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Our virtues are, most often, only disguised vices.

Human vices provide substantial government income.

Poverty is the mother of all vices.

Virtues should be sisters, the same way vices are brothers.

Yesterday's vices are tomorrow's customs.

Boredom is the beginning of all vices.

The fox changes its fur, but not its vices.