Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes, Vices Quotes, Great Things Quotes

It is a great thing to know your vices.

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A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a 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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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

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

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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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It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man.

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Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.

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

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

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The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

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That low vice, curiosity!

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If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.

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The vices come as passengers, visit us as guest and stay as masters.

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Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

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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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