Thy body is all vice, and thy mind all virtue.
Samuel Johnson The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: vice virtue sin

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue.
Horace Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: vice habit virtue goodness success self-control

We can learn to raise our sights a bit. For as Abigail Adams warned, if we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it. Human beings can adjust to anything. (I call this getting used to decadence.)
William Bennett Our Sacred Honor
Categories: character integrity honor ethics morality morals principles values virtues society vice sin apathy