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Vices Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every…
- There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.
- Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
- The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
- Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is…
- Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
- 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…
- It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
- The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.
- Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
More Vices Quotes
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. — Mary Astell
- We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. — Saint Augustine
- It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. — Walter Bagehot
- Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice. — Abu Bakr
- Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. — Mikhail Bakunin
- When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. — Honore de Balzac
- Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. — Tallulah Bankhead
- Fast cars are my only vice. — Michael Bay
- Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. — Henry Ward Beecher
- It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest… — Dirk Benedict
- Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as… — Annie Besant