Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Exaggeration Is Quotes, Vices Quotes

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

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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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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

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In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

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Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a 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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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

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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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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

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The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

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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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Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.

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Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

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

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

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

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