Aristotle Quotes, Character Quotes, Vices Quotes

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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Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.

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

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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

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Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

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Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

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He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.

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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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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

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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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The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

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

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

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

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