To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom. - Vicesimus Knox

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

At court, far from regarding ambition as a sin, people regard it as a virtue, or if it passes for a vice, then it is regarded as the vice of great souls, and the vices of great souls are preferred to the virtues of the simple and the small.

Every other vice hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of some excuse, but envy wants both.