The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

I cannot," said he, "expect everyone to have my virtues. It's good enough to meet with my vices...

It's Shakespeare, to have a single family in which human flaws and virtues are on such vivid display—and the constant struggle between those vices and those virtues to try to do good and fulfill one's duty.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.