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He who spares vice wrongs virtue.

Proverbs and old sayings French about vice, virtue

Ingratitude is the mother of every vice.

Proverbs and old sayings French about ingratitude, vice, mother

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverbs and old sayings French about boredom, vice, work

How many daily read the Word, and yet from vice are not deterred.

Proverbs and old sayings German about vice, word

The excess of a virtue is a vice.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about excess, vice, virtue

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to vice.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about vice, pleasure

There is no vice that does not occasionally have some benefit, and no virtue that at times is not hurtful to some people.

Proverbs and old sayings about vice, virtue, people

Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pays to virtue.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about hypocrisy, vice, virtue

The wicked even hate vice in others.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about vice, hate

Excess in anything becomes a vice.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about excess, vice

No one ever suddenly reached the height of vice.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about vice

Concealed goodness is a sort of vice.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about vice

Idleness is the mother of all vice.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about vice, mother

After one vice a greater follows.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about vice

Knowledge is the mother of all virtue; all vice proceeds from ignorance.

Proverbs and old sayings about vice, ignorance, virtue, knowledge, mother

For the ugly vice of begging, there's the virtue of not giving.

Proverbs and old sayings about vice, virtue

Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about ability

Prosperity discovers vices, and adversity virtue.

Proverbs and old sayings English about prosperity, virtue

Set out wisely at first; custom will make every virtue more easy and pleasant to you than any vice can be.

Proverbs and old sayings English about vice, virtue

Great men's vices are accounted sacred.

Proverbs and old sayings German about man