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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
fleeing infinite illusion
You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another. You cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple. Umberto Eco
fleeing stories controversial
My greatest interest in it was certainly not to avoid those things that were going to be controversial about the family but the interest I had in the story was predominantly what he was pursuing and not as much what he was fleeing. Sean Penn
fleeing satire arise
Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it. Karl Kraus
fleeing
We don't know why they were fleeing New York. Denise Monteiro
fleeing rising since
Without electrons, there is no Google. And without clean electrons, there will be no Google customers, since we'll all be too busy fleeing from rising seas, droughts, and disease. Jeff Goodell
fleeing creation ends
All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought. David Eagleman
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 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