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Image of David Eddings
I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed. I lied." Silk said. "It's a vice I have.
- David Eddings
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Image of Henry Fielding
Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For charity doth not adopt the vices of its objects.
- Henry Fielding
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Image of Owen Feltham
Vice is a peripatetic, always in progression.
- Owen Feltham
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Image of John Dryden
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
- John Dryden
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Image of Gerald R. Ford
To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.
- Gerald R. Ford
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Image of Henry Fielding
Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.
- Henry Fielding
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Image of Benjamin Disraeli
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Image of Evan Esar
A dollar saved is a dollar earned but seldom vice versa.
- Evan Esar
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Louis Aragon
The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the image for its own sake and for the element of unpredictable perturbation and of metamorphosis which it introduces into the domain of representation; for each image on each occasion forces you to revise the entire Universe.
- Louis Aragon
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Image of Finley Peter Dunne
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it
- Finley Peter Dunne
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Image of Finley Peter Dunne
Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.
- Finley Peter Dunne
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Image of Colin Farrell
I've started films like Miami Vice where I'm in really good shape and I look back on that film and see the moustache is bigger as I've got a larger face.
- Colin Farrell
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Image of Erich Fromm
If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself, since I am a human being too.
- Erich Fromm
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
Let thy vices die before thee.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Sigmund Freud
Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.
- Sigmund Freud
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Aristotle
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 cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.
- Aristotle
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Image of Andre Gide
I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
- Andre Gide
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Image of William Hazlitt
The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.
- William Hazlitt
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Image of Werner Heisenberg
The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa.
- Werner Heisenberg
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Image of J. G. Holland
There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.
- J. G. Holland
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Image of Saint Augustine
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
- Saint Augustine
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Image of Kedar Joshi
The non-spatial nature of consciousness makes it possible for any apparently unconscious entity to be conscious, and vice versa.
- Kedar Joshi
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Image of Francis of Assisi
Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.
- Francis of Assisi
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Image of Patrick Henry
It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.
- Patrick Henry
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Image of Saint Augustine
The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.
- Saint Augustine
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Image of Arthur Helps
The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.
- Arthur Helps
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Image of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted from the neck and shoulders.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Image of John F. Kennedy
Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms.
- John F. Kennedy
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Image of David Hume
The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.
- David Hume
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Joseph Joubert
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
- Joseph Joubert
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Image of Lyndon B. Johnson
Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
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Image of Samuel Johnson
Pleasure itself is not a vice
- Samuel Johnson
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Image of Juvenal
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
- Juvenal
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Image of Abraham Lincoln
If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Image of Henry Adams
That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.
- Henry Adams
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Image of Livy
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
- Livy
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Image of Honore de Balzac
Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.
- Honore de Balzac
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Image of Paul Krugman
When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.
- Paul Krugman
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Image of Hanif Kureishi
My pleasures disappeared with my vices.
- Hanif Kureishi
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Image of H. L. Mencken
It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue.
- H. L. Mencken
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Image of David Lynch
My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa.
- David Lynch
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Image of Niccolo Machiavelli
A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
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Image of James Russell Lowell
Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
- James Russell Lowell
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