We have fine names for our own vices, and ugly ones for the very same vices in other people.
There are however vicesof reflection as well as of impulse.
All virtues and vicesare habits which incorporate objective forces.
There is equal injustice in attributing to reigning princes the virtues and the vices of the people they actually govern.
Those virtues and those vices should almost always, as statistics and logic will show, be attributed to the atmosphere of the preceding government.
The newspaper accounts of it, while illuminating, flashed upon me no light of self-revelation; they only amended some idle conjectures as to certain mystic vices I had heard whispered of.
Ulrichs reports that in the Austrian army lectures on homosexualvices are regularly given to cadets and conscripts (Memnon, p.
In England we are very familiar with vague allusions to the vices of public schools.
O Quintus," he says, "you see clearly the vices of the Tribunate!
Those relations which describe the tricks and vices only of mankind, by increasing our suspicion in life, retard our success.
During the religious wars, a writer on the side of Protestantism undertook to draw up a statement of the number of prostitutes and lewd women whose vices were chargeable to the clergy.
The vices of laziness, mendicancy, and their kindred failings of licentiousness and unchastity are chiefly confined to the towns, large and small.
If court manners and court styles are zealously followed, the vices that spring from them are not less assiduously improved upon.
These tend to expose the concealed vices of mankind, and to prove that many of the unfortunate victims are "more sinned against than sinning.
These characteristics they preserve to the present day, but otherwise they are a virtuous nation, strange to the worst vices of civilized life, and humble in their desires.
At all events, they had acquired only a fair assortment of vices and not many diseases.
His virtues are not all self-sustained, and his vices draw nutriment from fine and remote channels.
I look around, then, upon the vices and even the crimes of the City, and I say that some of them find root in the customs of the respectable and the fashionable.
If we were only in earnest as to these vices and crimes and guilty customs; if we would only wake from our apathy, to reflection and conviction; how soon would they diminish, and how many of them would pass away!
According to him, man was born innocent, and with dispositions only to virtue: all his vicesarose from the absurdity of the teachers who tortured his youth, all his sufferings from the tyranny of the rulers who oppressed his manhood.
Ruthlessly she assaulted the darling follies, the pet, velvet-masked vices that society had adopted, and called the reading world to a friendly parley; demanding that men and women should pause and reflect in their mad career.
Kultur can by no means dispense with passions, vicesand malignities.
In this the vices plough their furrows; in this the features are gradually contorted into a grisly image of guilt; until the day of judgment--the day of self-judgment.
The vices of levity are always ruinous to the common people, and a single week's thoughtlessness and dissipation is often sufficient to undo a poor workman for ever, and to drive him, through despair, upon committing the most enormous crimes.
The vices of levity and vanity necessarily render him ridiculous, and are, besides, almost as ruinous to him as they are to the common people.
His virtues they were, no doubt, willing to bury with him; the memory of his vices would serve some of them when they might need a lawless precedent.
He was a freebooter with most of the virtues and vices of his kind.
It will be of inestimable service to yourselves to come into contact with these fresh, fine, generous natures, uncontaminated by the vices of an effete and worn-out civilisation.
On the whole it must be admitted that the laws of the Koran did much to restrain the vices of the Arabs and to provide them with higher standards of right and wrong.
The Homeric Greeks, in fact, exhibited the usual defects and vices of barbarous peoples.
The practice of the virtues recommended by the Koran and the avoidance of the viceswhich that book condemns tend to raise its adherents in the moral scale.
Of the larger cities of the land, only Zenith had hesitated to submit its vices to Mike Monday and his expert reclamation corps.
The work was intended to contain an abstract of the Opus Majus, an account of the principal vices of theology, and treatises on speculative and practical alchemy.
In this work Bacon makes a vehement attack upon the ignorance and vices of the clergy and monks, and generally upon the insufficiency of the existing studies.
He seems to have possessed all the vices of the Metis without any of his virtues or noble traits.
O'Donoghue was one of those miserable beings who seem to inherit the Vices of every calling and nationality to which they can claim a kindred.
Now that Western civilisation is spreading over the land the difference in the moral outlook of the two peoples tends to decrease; with the savage vices go the savage virtues, and soon there will be no difference at all.
On another part of the wall is a carved representation of the vices which led to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
While Rousseau's lips a lackey's vices own,-- Lips that could draw the thunder on a throne!
He had poured such bitter invective both in his books and in his sermons upon thevices of the Popes and the Cardinals, that they too formed a powerful party in league against him.
After having exposed the secret vices of marriage, would it not be an inquiry worthy of philosophers to search out the causes which have rendered it so vicious?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vices" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
