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In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

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Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

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If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.

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

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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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

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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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Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

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

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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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Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.

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

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