Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
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Here's a rule I recommend Never practice two vices at once.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.
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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
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The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
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From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.
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Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.
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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
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When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
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I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.
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Have not prisons which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe always been universities of crime?
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Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
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Hate no one hate their vices, not themselves.
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.
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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
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No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.
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Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
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