Adam Smith Quotes, Fear Quotes, Vices Quotes

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

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

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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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Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own 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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A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a 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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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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Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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

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If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?

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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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If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.

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It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

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Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.

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

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Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.

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

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Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

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