Saint Augustine Quotes, Feet Quotes, Vices Quotes

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

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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

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

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

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Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

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

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

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

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

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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

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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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That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

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

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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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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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He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.

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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.

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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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