Vices Quotes
Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.Ayn Rand
Sow good services sweet remembrances will grow them.Madame de Stael
Blessed are they who heal you of self - Despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.William Hale White
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius, 64 A. D.
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.J. G. C. Brainard
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.Saint Augustine
No company is 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.C. C. Colton
Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance.Sidney Madwed
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.Seneca
It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.Orison Swett Marden
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.Sir Winston Churchill
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.Benjamin Franklin
Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.Madame de Stael
A sign of a celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.Daniel J. Boorstin
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.Rene Descartes
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.John W. Gardne
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.George Bernard Shaw
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.Benjamin Disraeli
What once were vices are manners now.Seneca
It is a great thing to know our vices.Cicero
All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.Thomas J. Watson
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 5 scene 3
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.William Shakespeare
Hate no one hate their vices, not themselves.J. G. C. Brainard
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.Victor Hugo
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.G. K. Chesterton
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.Walter Bagehot, "Biographical Studies", 1863
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.Abraham Lincoln
A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.Daniel J. Boorstin
