A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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Age that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.
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The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
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Age: that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
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I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.
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He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices
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When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name
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No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
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Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly
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If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education
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I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue
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The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
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Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
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We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
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From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind.
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Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If the source is corrupt, you have damned your own existence. Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame. Then you'll scream that money is evil. Evil, because it would not pinch-hit for your self-respect? Evil, because it would not let you enjoy your depravity? Is this the root of your hatred of money?
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We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
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