Saint Augustine Quotes, Vices Quotes, Ladders Quotes

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

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

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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

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That low vice, curiosity!

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

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In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

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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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The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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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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Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

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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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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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I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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

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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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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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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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