Lord Byron Quotes, Life Quotes, Vices Quotes

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

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Change generally pleases the rich. [Lat., Plerumque gratae divitibus vices.]

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The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.

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Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.

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

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A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.

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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

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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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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

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Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

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I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.

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The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

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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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And Joe Biden, thank you for being the best Vice President I could ever hope for.

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Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

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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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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

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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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