Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, Practice Quotes, Vices Quotes

He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.

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

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

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

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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

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A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

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It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

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

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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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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

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

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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 virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

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If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

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The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

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It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.

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That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

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