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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 sincerity worst
The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity. Oscar Wilde
vices drink smoke
Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice. Kathy Griffin
vices great-things knows
It is a great thing to know your vices. Marcus Tullius Cicero
vices flattery handmaids
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]
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 allowance esteem
Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue. John Locke
virtue
There is a virtue in shamelessness. David Brooks