Vices Quotes

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Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed to each regiment,… — George Washington
I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons;… — Benjamin Franklin
When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to… — Joseph Addison
Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty. — John Ruskin
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue. — Oliver Goldsmith
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed . — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion. — Publilius Syrus
MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt. — Ambrose Bierce
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station. — Joseph Addison
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be… — Harriet Martineau
Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects… — Eliphas Levi
I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it… — Arnold Schoenberg
Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there you have Nature,… — Marquis de Sade
We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice. — Maxwell Maltz
No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption… — Samuel Johnson
In the 1920s the young English physicist Paul Dirac began trying to understand and describe the space-time evolution of the electron, the first elementary particle… — Antonino Zichichi
It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East,… — Winston Churchill
Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you. — Edward Gorey
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few. — Benjamin Disraeli
Vices are not crimes. — Lysander Spooner
They've got a Jobs Council that never meets. A Democratic Senate that doesn't act. A President who doesn't believe and a Vice President who won't… — Thomas G. Stemberg
Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of fact; for, whatever… — John Calvin
Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.) — Truman Capote
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities… — Eric Temple Bell

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