Vice Quotes

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He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice. — Napoleon Bonaparte
It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices. — Eric Hoffer
There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask. — Benjamin Franklin
A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or… — Albert Camus
A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa. — Sigmund Freud
Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness. — Sigmund Freud
See, that's the thing about second chances. It's two people that are there for each other and support each other and care about each other… — Jacqueline Kelly
I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all… — John McCain
... my life has been dedicated to my growth and evolution as a conscious being. ... becoming more aware of all that was taking place… — Shakti Gawain
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,… — Thomas Jefferson
What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow. — Henry Fielding
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything. — Honore de Balzac
It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice. — Hosea Ballou
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. — Edmund Burke
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much… — Oliver Goldsmith
As your consciousness becomes more settled, all your life patterns change. What religions have called sin will disappear from your life, and what they have… — Rajneesh
Because all the societies, all the nations, all the cultures, have taken it for granted that the individuals exist for them, not vice-versa. To me,… — Rajneesh
I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping… — John Donne

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