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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
morality needs question
He needs the girl. It's that simple. There's no question of morality for him. Cillian Murphy
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
morality observance
There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality. Joseph Addison
morality endeavor temper
I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
morality virtue
The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue. James Anthony Froude
morality divine obligation
Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.
morality moral results
Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints. Mahatma Gandhi
morality grey-areas grey
I loved getting to investigate the grey areas of morality. Emmy Rossum
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 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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