Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet, subtle satisfaction without the risk. — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice! — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice;… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Mr Speaker, Mr Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans, last month I went to Andrews Air Force Base… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
No news conferences? Interviews now only with friendly journalists? You can't be president or vice president and govern in that style, as… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it isgood-and that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I was kind of scared at first to do that [vice-over] because when you're on set, a lot of the things going… — Elle Fanning Copy Share Image
It is about something personal and specific, because when the John McCain campaign in 2008 decided to elevate Sarah Palin from total… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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