Vices are often habits rather than passions
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Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them
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A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
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A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern h
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations
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Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
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Vices are their own punishment
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates
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Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.
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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have
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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one's disaster
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues
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Virtue is not the absence 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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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
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For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.
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In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.
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It is a great thing to know our vices.
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These are the sorts of fundamental publishing vices of the most serious kind.
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Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.
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I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.
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I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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