William Shakespeare Quotes, Vices Quotes, Action Quotes

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

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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 psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

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Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

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

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We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

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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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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.

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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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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

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In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.

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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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That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

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If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.

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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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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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Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

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Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.

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