Vice And Virtue Quotes
11 quotes by 11 authors
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It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.
— Eric Hoffer
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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
— David Hume
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It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of…
— Alexander Fraser Tytler
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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
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
— Dorothy Parker
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Vice is its own reward.
— Quentin Crisp
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A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.
— Robin Skelton
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
— Alexander Pope
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There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and…
— Charles Robert Maturin
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So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray…
— Charles Dickens
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