Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Napoleon Bonaparte

• Virtue

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the tracts which favor that theory.

Thomas Jefferson

• Imagination

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

Erwin Schrodinger

• Virtue

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Franz Kafka

• Beginning
• Virtue

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

Jules Verne

When it is darkest, men see the stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Man

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

Plato

• Virtue

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Abraham Lincoln

• Virtue

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Plutarch

• Virtue

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

Juvenal

• Virtue

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Charles Dickens

• Virtue

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

Julius Caesar

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Victor Hugo

• Virtue

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heinrich Heine

• Action
• Thinking

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

James Joyce

• Thinking

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Power
• Virtue
• Passion

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

Rene Descartes

• Mind
• Virtue

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Quintilian

• Ambition
• Virtue

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Aristotle Onassis