Charles Dickens Quotes, Vices Quotes, Excess Quotes

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

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

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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.

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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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That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

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

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

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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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That low vice, curiosity!

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

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HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.

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

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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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Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not to be forced to become rapacious, a prince must consider it of little importance if he incurs the name of miser, for this is one of the vices that permits him to rule.

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

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

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