Plato Quotes, Vices Quotes, Virtue Quotes

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

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

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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

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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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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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That low vice, curiosity!

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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

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

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

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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

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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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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

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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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The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

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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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The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

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The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

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