Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Vices Quotes, Saint Quotes

The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

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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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Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.

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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

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

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Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

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There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

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

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He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.

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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 a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

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

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

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That low vice, curiosity!

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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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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