William Shakespeare Quotes, Vices Quotes, Poverty Quotes

Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary

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

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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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The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

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

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Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

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

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

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Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

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

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

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It is a great thing to know your vices.

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Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? 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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That low vice, curiosity!

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

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