A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
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In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens.
What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
What is vice but an enslaving habit and virtue but a human opinion? See God and do His will; walk in whatever path He shall trace for thy goings.
Pride is the emotional reward of achievement. It is not a vice to be overcome but a virtue to be attained.
All my foundation in virtue was no other than a total ignorance of vice.
Early rising may not be a vice.. But it is certainly no virtue. The old saw about the early bird just goes to show that the worm should have stayed in bed.
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But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
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Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice.
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What is pity but the vice of kindness.
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Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.
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Dr. Roboy, in Litvak's measured view, had a vice common to believers: He was all strategy and no tactics. He was prone to move for the sake of moving, too focused on the goal to bother with the intervening sequence.
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The state is suffering from two opposite vices, avarice and luxury; two plagues which, in the past, have been the ruin of every great empire.
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