Aristotle Quotes, Vices Quotes, Lines Quotes

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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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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Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.

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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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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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If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?

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

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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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

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

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It is a great thing to know your vices.

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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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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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The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

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Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.

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

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Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

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