Boyd K. Packer Quotes

Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of freedom is no virtue.

He who seeks to regulate everything by law, is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful.

Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.

We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.

Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?

The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.

Vices are simply overworked virtues.

It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills.

Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.

Most virtue lies between two vices.

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.