Lord Byron Quotes, Life Quotes, Vices Quotes

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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We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

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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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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 is voluntary, vice involuntary.

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The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

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My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

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The supreme vice is shallowness.

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Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

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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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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Quality Quotes , Vices Quotes

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

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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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A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

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

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That low vice, curiosity!

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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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I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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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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Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Light Quotes , Vices Quotes