Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes, Vices Quotes, Needs Quotes

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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That low vice, curiosity!

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Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.

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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

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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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He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to 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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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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Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

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Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.

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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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

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

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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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

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Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.

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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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We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

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