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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
morally
Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong. Daniel O'Connell
morale
I think that you will see the morale lifted, Harry McDonald
morality needs question
He needs the girl. It's that simple. There's no question of morality for him. Cillian Murphy
moral-high-ground iraq borders
We have the - the longest, friendliest border, you know, for the - for the longest time in the history - in recorded history, really, with Canada. And they get to sit on their moral perch, you know, take the moral high ground, say, oh, United States, shame on you about Iraq. They make us look bad internationally. And it's really not fair. Tucker Carlson
morality produce immorality
Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality. Tullian Tchividjian
morality study social
Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising. Vincent Van Gogh
moral duty obligation
It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
moral guidance authority
The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority. Walter Lippmann
morally people sit
I'm not going to sit here and tell people morally what they should do, Matt Birk
virtue oversight packages
It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages. Will Durant
virtue economics budgets
Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no. Ronald Reagan
virtue praise servant
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants. Samuel Johnson
virtue
If there is no immortality, there is no virtue
virtue fashionable
It is necessary to make virtue fashionable. Jose Marti
virtue parliament humankind
We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it. John Adams
virtue command beggar
Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect. Friedrich Schiller
virtue conditions
We cannot have right virtue without right conditions. Henry Ward Beecher
virtue sentinels conscience
Conscience is the sentinel of virtue. Johann Kaspar Lavater