Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?
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This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
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I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.
Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
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Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
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The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
We have observed for thirty centuries that a large nose is a sign on the door of our face that says 'Herein dwells a man who is intelligent, prudent, courteous, affable, noble-minded and generous'. A small nose is a cork on the bottle of the opposite vices.
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The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable; absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullnesses of it and the pomposities of it.
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A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.
Prentice: Unnatural vice can ruin a man. Rance: Ruin follows the accusation not the vice.
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The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
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It is easy to distinguish the evil worked by sin and vice, but the trained eye sees also the evil done by self-righteous or self-regarding virtue.
Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I know this well.. Vanity and dishonesty may be vices, but they're also the first forms of protection I ever knew.
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Luxury Employ'd a Million of the Poor, And odious Pride a Million more; Envy it self, and Vanity, Were Ministers of Industry; Their darling Folly, Fickleness, In Diet, Furniture and Dress, That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made The very Wheel that turn'd the Trade.
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Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.
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It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
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I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamaties which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.
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If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science, we'd all think he'd gone 'round the bend. We don't need to do that sort of thing anymore, we'd say. We have better, kinder ways.
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