“To consort with the crowd is harmful; there is no person who does not make some vice attractive to us, or stamp it upon us, or taint us unconsciously therewith.”
~ Seneca
Seneca on Vices
“Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer; but in the life of which I speak, you must live without being paid.”
~ Seneca
David Hume on Virtue
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
~ David Hume
Benjamin Franklin on Vice
Virtue may not always make a face handsome, but vice will certainly make it ugly.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin On vices
Let thy vices die before thee.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Cato the Younger on Vice
“Old age has deformities enough of its own. – It should never add to them the deformity of vice”
~ Cato the Younger