Alexander Pope Quotes, Pride Quotes, Vices Quotes

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

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The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

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

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He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.

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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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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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Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary

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

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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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Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

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The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

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A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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

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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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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

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