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

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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

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

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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

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That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

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

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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

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The supreme vice is shallowness.

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

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Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.

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

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

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

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

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Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary

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No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

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In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

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