Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Vice knows that she is ugly, so she puts on her mask.

Vice knows that she is ugly, so she puts on her mask.

Summary

This quote depicts how vice, or immoral behavior, is aware of its unsightly nature and therefore disguises itself. It suggests that those engaged in vice are fully aware of their wrongdoing or immorality, leading them to conceal their true selves behind a metaphorical mask. This serves as a metaphor for the deceptive nature of vice, emphasizing how people often pretend to be something they are not in order to justify their negative actions and avoid facing the reality of their behavior.

Topics

Virtue

By Benjamin Franklin

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

That men in armour may be born With serpents' teeth the fiel

That men in armour may be born With serpents' teeth the field is sown; Rains mould, winds bend, suns gild the corn Too quickly ripe, too early mown. I scan the quivering heads, behold The features, catch the whispered breath Of friends long garnered in the cold Unopening granaries of death, Whose names in solemn cadence ring Across my slow oblivious page. Their friendship was a finer thing Than fame, or wealth, or honoured age, And--while you live and I--shall last Its tale of seasons with us yet Who cherish, in the undying past, The men we never can forget.

Charles Kenneth (C.K.) ScottMonc

Remembrance

As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothi

As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.

Diet

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

John Foster Dulles

Government

For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours

For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live.For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.And in th sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

Francesco Guicciardini

Planning

General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility

General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me.

Respect

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Edward George BulwerLytton

Purpose

Whenever someone acts one way in public - goes overboard, if

Whenever someone acts one way in public - goes overboard, if you know what i mean - it'll turn out they have an opposite side. The quietest person will have the worst temper. The happiest person will suffer the worst depressions. The best thing about a person is the worst thing.

Life People Thoughts

What the eyes don't see, the heart can't feel.

What the eyes don't see, the heart can't feel.

Love Pain

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Freedom

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play t

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.