It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie Copy Share Image
What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. — Robert Staughton Lynd Copy Share Image
I like to eat chocolate and pizza - that's my vice! - just like everyone else, but if I do it I… — Cara Castronuova Copy Share Image
Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I began to learn about the camera and the actors. That gave me a lot of the skills. At the same time,… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
[On George W. Bush:] How is it possible that the president is off on vacation and the vice president is, too? Not… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice… — Georges Bizet Copy Share Image
Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
When from behind me, a young woman of 25 uttered the following, it was the dumbest thing I have ever heard in… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Over the years, Charlie [Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman] and I have observed many accounting-based frauds of staggering size. Few of the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without… — Benjamin Harvey Hill Copy Share Image
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
I can't presume to speak for the others, but I never felt anything negative from anyone when I was onstage with Television.… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let's… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
All ills spring from some vice, either in ourselves or others; and even many of our diseases proceed from the same origin.… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be… — Polycarp Copy Share Image
It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“I tried to think of a vice I want to sacrifice, and ended up reasoning that I need my bad habits, desperately,… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice, — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If the president and the Vice President dies who becomes President" "Thats easy Arnold Swartzanager — Dan Gutman Copy Share Image
The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Except for the title 'father,' there is no title, including vice president, that I am more proud to wear than that of… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My worst vice is gluttony. I try to keep myself under control because I'm an athlete, but once a week I like… — Gianluigi Buffon Copy Share Image
Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea; the other was elected vice president of the United States. And nothing… — Thomas R. Marshall Copy Share Image
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