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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 assuming virtue
There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters with the very vice which he himself has been most outspoken in condemning -- without altogether recognizing it beneath the disguise of ambiguous behavior which it assumes in his presence. Marcel Proust
vices social restriction
It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable. Kenneth Grahame
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 virtue shortcomings
Vices are simply overworked virtues ... Laura Ingalls Wilder
vices speak accusation
If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well Epictetus
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 fortune
Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees. Ovid
virtue respectable
Virtue has never been as respectable as money. Mark Twain