Ernest Hemingway Quotes, Writing Quotes, Vices Quotes

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

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It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

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Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

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Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.

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Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

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That low vice, curiosity!

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

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Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

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In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

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Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.

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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.

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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

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For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

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There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

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Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

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For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

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