It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My biggest vice is playing solitaire on my iPad. It's bad. I mean, it's ridiculous. — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice. — Boethius Copy Share Image
Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we… — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
There was a lot of stuff happening in Havana that was being heard and appreciated by New Orleans musicians because of this… — Ruben Blades Copy Share Image
I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of the crisis, since the terrorists started to control some areas within Syria, the majority of the Syrian civilians… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I measure success in terms of the connection with the audience, which we've been able to do in spades. I mean, it's… — Tom Freston Copy Share Image
You can reasonably make the intellectual journey from thinking it's permissible to eat shrimp to thinking it's not permissible, or vice versa,… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more real, or concern us more, than our own sentiments of pleasure and uneasiness; and if these be favourable… — David Hume Copy Share Image
What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The visible universe is subject to quantification, and is so by necessity. … Between you and me only reason will be the… — Adelard of Bath Copy Share Image
The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Because all the societies, all the nations, all the cultures, have taken it for granted that the individuals exist for them, not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who… — Flora Tristan Copy Share Image
People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility… — Anthony de Jasay Copy Share Image
I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices. — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
a weak and irresolute disposition is often more destructive than determined vice. — Lady Caroline Lamb Copy Share Image
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
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