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vices tendencies tempted
The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted. Rebecca West
vices sin slave
The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins. Saint Augustine
vices nine penalties
Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty. William Graham Sumner
vices wells employed
The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another. William Hazlitt
vices dishonesty murder
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
vices needs prudent
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
vices sake
Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake. Cassandra Clare
vices virtue calculations
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice. Joseph Joubert
vices sincerity worst
The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity. Oscar Wilde
folly good pay worth
A good folly is worth what you pay for it. George Ade
folly avoided
It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided. Publilius Syrus
folly human perennial race
Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived. Bertrand Russel
folly next punish
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
folly man publish wit
Strange! that a Man who has wit enough to write a Satyr; should have folly enough to publish it. Benjamin Franklin
folly gold home nbc worse
You had the gold, gold, gold all but in your hand. By your folly you have disappointed everyone at home and, worse yet, NBC and its advertisers. You were showboating, weren¹t you? Bob Costas
folly fools realize true
Those who realize their folly are not true fools
folly love run slightest thee thou
If thou remember'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved. William Shakespeare
folly
Anger without power is folly. Florence Scovel Shinn