It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice? — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa. — Tom Barbash Copy Share Image
The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Two persons have been elected to the offices of President and Vice-President exclusively by the people of ONE SECTION of the country...A… — John Willis Ellis Copy Share Image
This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
There learned arts do flourish in great honour And poets's wits are had in peerless price; Religion hath lay power, to rest… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose… — John Donne Copy Share Image
While I was in prison, I was indulging in all types of vice, right within the prison. And I never was ostracized… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
It is not doubted, and you know it, that Ireland and all those islands which have received the faith, belong to the… — Pope Adrian IV Copy Share Image
Though the archbishop may rightly argue that they are objectively wrong in their positions, I don't understand how he can presume to… — John I. Jenkins Copy Share Image
“With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as hard to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I may not be funny. I may not be a singer. I may not be a damn seamstress. I may have diabetes.… — Justin Johnson Copy Share Image
“Yet, for my part, I was never usually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Senator John Kerry, who is running for president, said that when he voted for the war… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Academia is alas full of special interests and specialists who presumed it was possible to "leapfrog" over this or that entire line… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Each of us plays four roles in relation to the brain. We lead, we inspire, we invent, and we use it. Most… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
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