William Shakespeare Quotes, Vices Quotes, Action Quotes

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

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Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

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HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.

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It is a great thing to know your vices.

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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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No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

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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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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.

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Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

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The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

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Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

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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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Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.

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The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.

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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

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I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.

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Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

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Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not to be forced to become rapacious, a prince must consider it of little importance if he incurs the name of miser, for this is one of the vices that permits him to rule.

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