Horace Quotes, Pride Quotes, Vices Quotes

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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I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.

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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

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

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If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.

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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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Change generally pleases the rich. [Lat., Plerumque gratae divitibus vices.]

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That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to 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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It is a great thing to know your vices.

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

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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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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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He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.

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

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Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

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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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