Vices Quotes
1188 Vices quotes by 758 unique authors
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When from behind me, a young woman of 25 uttered the following, it was the dumbest thing I have ever heard in my life until…
— Lewis Black
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What is pity but the vice of kindness.
— Emile M. Cioran
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God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
— Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
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This vice brings in one hundred million francs in taxes every year. I will certainly forbid it at once - as soon as you can…
— Napoleon III
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As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false…
— Hannah Arendt
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Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There are no infidels anywhere but on earth: there are none in heaven, and there are none in hell. Atheism is a strange thing. Even…
— Charles Spurgeon
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My daughter, I'm proud to say, is senior vice president of ABC Family network. She could hire and fire me. She has hired me, but…
— Jessica Walter
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It's important to remember how our friends have such a powerful influence on us and vice versa. This can be a great thing as long…
— Demi Lovato
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If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done…
— Thomas Jefferson
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A wife says to her husband (or vice versa), "Do you love me?""Of course," he replies. "I've been married to you for twenty years, haven't…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.
— Al-Ghazali
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If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are not virtuous. How…
— Ibn Hazm
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The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves…
— Robert Menzies
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I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy…
— Charles Brockden Brown
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So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which…
— Aristotle
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We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.
— Henry David Thoreau
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We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
— Holbrook Jackson
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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
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He's put on weight and I've lost it, and vice versa.
— Ronnie Whelan
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
— Joseph Addison
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Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their…
— Adam Smith
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