vices

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility.

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.

Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice and need.

"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

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.

Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be served.

Weeds are the little vices that beset plant life, and are to be got rid of the best way we know how.