Honore De Balzac Quotes, Quality Quotes, Vices Quotes

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

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

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Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.

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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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Change generally pleases the rich. [Lat., Plerumque gratae divitibus vices.]

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That low vice, curiosity!

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The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

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Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

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

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

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

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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

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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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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

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

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Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

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