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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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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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Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

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Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

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

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

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

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Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

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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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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

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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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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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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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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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HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.

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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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Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

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