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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 philosopher cowardice
Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice! Mikhail Bulgakov
philosophers-and-philosophy philosophy rather seeks solve
Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny. Edward Bulwer-Lytton
philosopher beacons clear
A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me. Jacques Maritain
philosopher chemicals experiments
Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments Manly Hall
philosopher should take-your-time
This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time. Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosopher absurd said
Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.) Marcus Tullius Cicero
philosopher absurd said
Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.
philosopher sponges
Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge? Terry Pratchett
philosopher great-philosophers scholar
A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
philosopher middle stations
The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.
cowardice valor prudence
Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
cowardice dread happens
Cowardice, the dread of what will happen. Epictetus
cowardice far
Better far than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.
cowardice pacifism
Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice. Adolf Hitler
cowardice things-to-do knows
To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice. Confucius
cowardice
Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so. Michel de Montaigne
cowardice acknowledgement
Is there cowardice with the acknowledgement of fear? Markus Zusak
cowardice alms giver
The greatest giver of alms is cowardice. Friedrich Nietzsche