Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Discovery Quotes, Vices Quotes

The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

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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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For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

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Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

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

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What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.

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A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a 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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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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

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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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And Joe Biden, thank you for being the best Vice President I could ever hope for.

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

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Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

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The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

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The supreme vice is shallowness.

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Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary

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He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.

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