Oscar Wilde Quotes, Vices Quotes, Ruins Quotes

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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Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

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

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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is 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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The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.

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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 is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

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

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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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Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

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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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Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

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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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