There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice. — Jonathan Swift 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
Vices and frailties correct each other, like acids and alkalies. If each vicious man had but one vice, I do not know… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“We are the collective creator of our own agony. It is time for a re-awakening of consciousness when we recognize the best… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through… — Oscar Wilde 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
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
It is not enough to show that drug A is better than drug B on the average. One is invited to ask,… — Lancelot Hogben 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
Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I was utterly free of speculative prejudices. The bear side doesn't appeal to me any more than the bull side, or vice… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
What is still more to our shame as civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to vice, and we introduce… — James Cook Copy Share Image
“We all have those things that help us carry on through life. It is important that these things upon which we depend… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
[John] Adams's perception of Europe, and especially France, was clearly different than [Tomas] Jefferson's. For Jefferson, the luxury and sophistication of Europe… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The ultimate law of language is, dare we say, that nothing can ever reside in a single term. This is a direct… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
The third class of evils comprise those which everyone causes to himself by his own action. This is the largest class, and… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The problem with this world is, everyone in it is 3 drinks behind. — Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
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