Lord Byron Quotes, Life Quotes, Vices Quotes

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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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

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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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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

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That low vice, curiosity!

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The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.

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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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

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

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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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The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

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The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

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

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

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Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

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

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He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.

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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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