It has been my experience that folks who have no vices¹ have very few virtues².

Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

It is a great thing to know our vices.

Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - )

Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.

J. G. C. Brainard

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Moral Letters to Lucilius, 64 A.D.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)

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

Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877), "Biographical Studies", 1863

The better part of valour is discretion³.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry IV, Part I, Act V, 4

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices

Make instruments to plague us.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Lear", Act 5 scene 3