The honest person is going to be the person that tells the truth when the truth is warranted, when the truth is appropriate. And, of course, this virtue has two corresponding vices. There is, of course, the vice of being a liar. That is a vice of deficiency, insufficient truth-telling.

That moral virtue is a mean, then, and in what sense it is so, and that it is a mean between two vices, the one involving excess, the other deficiency, and that it is such because its character is to aim at what is intermediate in passions and in actions, has been sufficiently stated.

Each virtue is the midpoint between a vice of deficiency (red) and excess (blue). The virtuous person will tend to the center. Aristotle sees ethics as more of an art than a science, and his explanations purposely lack specifics.

A vice is a moral failing or a bad habit. Traditional examples of vice include drinking alcohol, smoking tobacco, and gambling in card games. But anything can be a vice, as long as there’s someone out there who views it as bad behavior or a moral weakness. You might say, casually, “I don’t drink, smoke, or gamble.

The term “moral virtues” refers to the character traits that are helpful or even necessary for a well-lived life; moral vices are those character traits that are obstacles to living well. We will explore moral virtues such as compassion and forgiveness.

Common vices include:

• Anger. While not all anger is an example of vice, the type of anger that leads to hatred, a deeply-held desire for revenge, or extreme resentment against others falls into the category of vice.
• Arrogance.
• Envy.
• Gluttony.
• Greed.
• Lust.
• Sloth.

Bottom line: “vices” are OK in small doses and could even be beneficial. “Going out with friends and enjoying wine once in a while, for example, is fantastic socially, emotionally, and even cognitively,” Marcello adds.

A vice has two parallel jaws which work together to firmly clamp an object and hold it in place. A threaded screw, which is connected to the jaws, runs through the body of the vice, and its movement is controlled by a handle, which is located on the outer end of a vice. …

Typical virtues include courage, temperance, justice, prudence, fortitude, liberality, and truthfulness. Vices, by contrast, are negative character traits that we develop in response to the same emotions and urges. Typical vices include cowardice, insensibility, injustice, and vanity.

How to Break a Bad Habit and Replace It With a Good One

1. Stress and boredom.
2. Choose a substitute for your bad habit.
3. Cut out as many triggers as possible.
4. Join forces with somebody.
5. Surround yourself with people who live the way you want to live.
6. Visualize yourself succeeding.
7. You don’t need to be someone else, you just need to return to the old you.

With the idea of the 3 Rs in mind, here are 15 tips to help you break that old, stubborn habit.

1. Identify your triggers.
2. Focus on why you want to change.
3. Enlist a friend’s support.
4. Practice mindfulness.
5. Replace the habit with a different one.
6. Leave yourself reminders.
7. Prepare for slipups.
8. Let go of the all-or-nothing mindset.

It is possible to live a life without any of what you think are vices. Improbable, since you are human, but possible. Your idea of what a vice is may also change after time with knowledge and experience. It is not possible to live a life without any vices in the eyes of others.

Vices are bad habits that are hard to control and can destroy us if we do not stop them on time. A fully normal habit can become harmful if it controls us, affects our health, or threatens others.

An occasional alcoholic drink, a bit of dark chocolate, a steaming cup of coffee, and even fatty foods — the right kind of fatty foods — can lower your risk of heart disease, allergies, and other conditions. Find out how adding some of these “treats” to your life may up your fun quotient as well as improve your health.

We all have our vices: some of us enjoy the occasional cigarette; others prefer a nice beer after a hard week at work. We see the harm caused by our vice as acceptable because we feel that as individuals we should be allowed to make decisions that affect our own health. …

“Folks who have no vices have, generally, very few virtues.” Of course, what a “vice” is, exactly, is open to some interpretation. According to the dictionary… Vice: An evil, degrading or immoral practice or habit. But we’re defining a term with other fuzzy terms.

“If a man has no vices, he’s in great danger of making vices out of his virtues, and there’s a spectacle. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modesly around it.”

More often than not, we use our vices because we feel feelings we want to run away from or push out. It doesn’t matter what the feelings are. All that matters is we don’t like them and want to get away. Lucky for us, our vice stands there offering immediate distraction and displacement.

It is defined as a bad habit or immoral activities. Vices are common among young males and females, examples include prostitution, indecent dressing, robbery, cultism, picking pocket, drug addition, examination malpractice, hooliganism, thuggery, gambling, smoking, pre-marital sexual activities and rape.

Nobody likes to experience it, but fear can be a spur to virtuous action, and overcoming fear is the essence of courage. They explored the Stoic idea that fear is actually a vice, and one that needs to be ‘expunged from our emotional repertoire’.

The vice of excess is irascibility or irritableness, of deficiency is spiritlessness or passivity (there’s not a good word for it). Truthfulness – is what Aristotle called moderation in one’s presentation of oneself, with boastfulness as the excess and self-deprecation as the deficiency.