“We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.”
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Aurelius Augustinus 183
early Christian theologian and philosopher 354–430Related quotes
As quoted in Lives by Plutarch, as translated by Arthur Hugh Clough
“Our defects are sometimes the better adversaries when we oppose our vices.”
Nos défauts sont parfois les meilleurs adversaires que nous opposions à nos vices.
Alexis (1929)
“We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions.”
Preface
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961)
Context: 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.
“We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.”
Nec vitia nostra nec remedia pati possumus
Praefatio, sec. 9
History of Rome
“We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.”
As quoted in Thesaurus of Epigrams: A New Classified Collection of Witty Remarks, Bon Mots and Toasts (1942) by Edmund Fuller
“Virtue, if not in action, is a vice,
And, when we move not forward, we go backward.”
The Maid of Honour (c. 1621; printed 1632), Act I, scene i.