Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.
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A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason.
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I think it (i. E., sainthood) is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god.
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Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
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By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.
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To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't.
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Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
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Private Vices by the dextrous Management of a skilful Politician may be turned into Publick Benefits.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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St. Augustine! Well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame!
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No number, No Bubble Mr. Vice President
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An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
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He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vices; he had two distinct persons in him.
It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices.
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice. Moral truisms have been so much disputed that they have begun to sparkle like so many brilliant paradoxes.
If individuals have no virtues, their vices may be of use to us.
Beware of knowing your virtues; you may lose them. Beware of knowing your vices; you may forgive them.
Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of the whole city.
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