Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes, Vices Quotes, Needs Quotes

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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The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.

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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

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

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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

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

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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

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A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

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Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

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I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.

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He hadn’t a single redeeming 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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The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

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Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.

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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

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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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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

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