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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He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Humorous Quotes , Vices 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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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Vices Quotes , Needs Quotes

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Vices Quotes , Morality Quotes

Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

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The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

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Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Pride Quotes , Vices Quotes

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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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Vices Quotes , Lines Quotes

It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Temples Quotes , Vices Quotes

That low vice, curiosity!

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

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Vices Quotes , Audacity Quotes

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

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Vices Quotes , Dignity Quotes

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

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Tags : A. J. P. Taylor Quotes , Vices Quotes , Looks Quotes

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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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Vices Quotes

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Vices Quotes , Ladders Quotes

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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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

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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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Tags : Horace Quotes , Pride Quotes , Vices Quotes

For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Vices Quotes , Virtue Quotes

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

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