“ Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners — your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards — who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. ”
- Thornton Wilder- Copy
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“ It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one. ”
- Jerome K. Jerome- Copy
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“ Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue. ”
- Martin Tupper- Copy
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“ Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. ”
- Laurence J. Peter- Copy
- 3.6K
“ We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all those who have not a single virtue. ”
- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness. ”
- Marie de Vichy Chamrond- Copy
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“ We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. ”
- St. Augustine- Copy
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“ Vices are of two kinds, the beastly and the devilish. By his beastly vices, man puts himself below the beasts; the devilish vices have a degree of wickedness that goes far beyond the human. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
- 3.3K
“ I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ This is the tax a man must pay to his virtues — they hold up a torch to his vices, and render those frailties notorious in him, which would have passed without observation in another. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The basest person is capable of perceiving the weaknesses of the greatest, the most stupid, the errors in the thought of the most intelligent. ”
- Theodor W. Adorno- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vices in disguise. ”
- Johann Kaspar Lavater- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else — and failing. ”
- Raymond Radiguet- Copy
- 3.3K
“ What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 743
“ 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! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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