* Vice Quotations (Quotes at Davar Web Site) 04/01/2009-11/05/2011 * ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. #[Sallust] (86-34 BC) What once were vices are manners now. #[Lucius Annaeus Seneca] (4 BC - AD 65) He conquered with his weapons, but was conquered by his vices. #[Lucius Annaeus Seneca] (4 BC - AD 65) The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth. #[Pliny the Elder] (AD 23-79) Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. #[Benjamin Franklin] (1706-1790) The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. #[George Washington] (1732–1799) We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place. #[Daniel Boorstin] (1914–2004) ================================================================================ A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues. #[Plutarch] (AD 46-120)