Cool Quotes - V

It doesn't matter where I go, just as long as no one goes with me. I could vacation in my own home if everyone would leave me the fuck alone.

No, I'm gonna stay home. You can take a family vacation, and I'll take a vacation from the family. Trust me, it'll make both of our time more enjoyable.

[The] emperor of the West, the feeble and dissolute Valentinian, [had] reached his thirty-fifth year without attaining the age of reason or courage.

The invariable laws of nature [have] connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valor.

Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason.

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.

Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.

If this be a world of vice and woe, I'll take the vice and you take the woe.

[We] live in an age where victimhood is the new currency, victims a new kind of aristocracy, and pity a cardinal virtue.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

His self-love is well requited.

In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter.

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

I prefer an accommodating vice to an obstinate virtue.

Perhaps it would not be easy, within the same historical space, to find more vice and less virtue. We are continually shocked by the union of savage [Barbarian] and corrupt [Roman] manners.

It was [Totila's] constant theme, that national vice and ruin are inseparably connected; that victory is the fruit of moral as well as military virtue; and that the prince, and even the people, are responsible for the crimes which they neglect to punish.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

[Only] a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Visits always give pleasure—if not the arrival, the departure.

Seldom set foot in your neighbor's house—
too much of you, and he will hate you.