Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Exaggeration Is Quotes, Vices Quotes

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

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That low vice, curiosity!

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

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Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

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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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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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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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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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Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

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

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

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

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

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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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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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