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Image of Laurence Sterne
I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature.
- Laurence Sterne
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Image of Marquis de Sade
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
- Marquis de Sade
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Image of George Washington
Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human Nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?
- George Washington
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Image of Lysander Spooner
Vices are not crimes.
- Lysander Spooner
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Image of Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.
- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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Image of Seneca the Younger
It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
- Seneca the Younger
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Image of Ivan Turgenev
I'm through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me.... If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.
- Ivan Turgenev
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Image of Frances Wright
Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.
- Frances Wright
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Image of Seneca the Younger
What once were vices are manners now.
- Seneca the Younger
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Image of Nicolas Sarkozy
The French like burgers, Madonna and Miami Vice.
- Nicolas Sarkozy
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Image of Hilary Swank
What I love about making movies is that it's a collaboration. It's one of the most rewarding things, to create something and have someone show you something that you didn't see, and vice versa.
- Hilary Swank
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Image of John Wilmot
Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense
- John Wilmot
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Image of Ambrose Bierce
HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Image of Cassandra Clare
Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake.
- Cassandra Clare
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Image of George H. W. Bush
This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.
- George H. W. Bush
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Image of Winston Churchill
The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.
- Winston Churchill
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Image of Lord Chesterfield
Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they will lose something of their natural turpitude.
- Lord Chesterfield
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Image of Mikhail Bulgakov
Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice!
- Mikhail Bulgakov
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Image of Jesse Lauriston Livermore
I was utterly free of speculative prejudices. The bear side doesn't appeal to me any more than the bull side, or vice versa. My one steadfast prejudice is against being wrong.
- Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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Image of Truman Capote
Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.)
- Truman Capote
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Image of Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is a great thing to know your vices.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Image of John Calvin
The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues.
- John Calvin
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Image of Gilbert K. Chesterton
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Image of Jean de la Bruyere
No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.
- Jean de la Bruyere
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Image of Tom Verlaine
I can't presume to speak for the others, but I never felt anything negative from anyone when I was onstage with Television. When I played rhythm behind Lloyd, the only thing that concerned me was to push him as hard as I could so that he'd go beyond what he was capable of and come up with something new, and vice versa. That's the only thing that mattered.
- Tom Verlaine
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Image of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Image of Marcus Tullius Cicero
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Image of Philip Neri
At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined.
- Philip Neri
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Image of Thomas Carlyle
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
- Thomas Carlyle
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Image of Jean de la Bruyere
The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.
- Jean de la Bruyere
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Image of Angela Carter
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged.
- Angela Carter
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Image of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators are Failure and Success.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Image of Thomas Browne
They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.
- Thomas Browne
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Image of Confucius
If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?
- Confucius
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Image of Mason Cooley
Unlike other vices, cruelty, alas, is never boring.
- Mason Cooley
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Image of Edgar Degas
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.
- Edgar Degas
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Image of Joan Robinson
It is the rate of investment which governs the rate of saving, and not vice versa.
- Joan Robinson
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Image of Mason Cooley
The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.
- Mason Cooley
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Image of Plato
Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.
- Plato
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Image of Confucius
The vices come as passengers, visit us as guest and stay as masters.
- Confucius
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Image of Publilius Syrus
We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.
- Publilius Syrus
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Image of Publilius Syrus
The little vices of the great must needs be accounted very great.
- Publilius Syrus
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Image of Publilius Syrus
Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend.
- Publilius Syrus
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Image of Plato
Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.
- Plato
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Image of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Image of Charles Caleb Colton
The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.
- Charles Caleb Colton
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Image of Richard P. Feynman
You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.
- Richard P. Feynman
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