Their Vices Quotes
20 quotes by 19 authors
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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men…
— William Faulkner
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The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with…
— H. L. Mencken
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The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and…
— John Arbuthnot
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A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what…
— Horace
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Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
— John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
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Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.
— Seneca the Younger
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My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their…
— Anne Fadiman
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Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be noticed for their vices than not be noticed at all.
— Harry S. Truman
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Come awake, Tom. Fathers can willfully hurt their children. They can be addicts too weak to give up their vices, no matter the pain it…
— Libba Bray
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It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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The Americans as a nation are killing themselves with their vices and high living. As much as a man ought to eat in half an…
— Brigham Young
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In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed most of…
— John Steinbeck
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Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their…
— Peter Lewis Allen
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For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me…
— Rick Derringer
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The physically fit can enjoy their vices.
— Lord Percival
Who Wrote These Their Vices Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 20 Their Vices Quotes as follows: