Vices Quotes

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Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue. — St. Catherine of Siena
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and… — Samuel Adams
Dancing is why I love music as much as I do and vice-versa, and there aren’t many things better than those two combined. — Dianna Agron
The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity… — Henry David Thoreau
My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and… — Alan Cumming
Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses… — Aristotle
My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa. — Kareena Kapoor
For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the… — Aristotle
We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice. — Louis Kronenberger
Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of… — St. Jerome
The Church is God's Bride. All the saints and mystics say the ultimate purpose of human life, the highest end for which we were made,… — Peter Kreeft
Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is… — Patrick Leahy
It is not enough to show that drug A is better than drug B on the average. One is invited to ask, 'For which people… — Lancelot Hogben
Mr Speaker, Mr Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans, last month I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home… — Barack Obama
If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our… — Samuel Johnson
When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of… — Oswald Chambers
People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility of moving from… — Anthony de Jasay
If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So… — Solon
Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life. — Ruth Gordon
I hope they get something of interest out of it, but I'd rather they all hate it and I like it, instead of vice versa...… — Terry Zwigoff
Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close… — Ronnie Wood

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