Honore De Balzac Quotes, Vices Quotes, Audacity Quotes

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

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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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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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The supreme vice is shallowness.

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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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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and 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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That low vice, curiosity!

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It is a great thing to know your vices.

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I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.

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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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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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Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

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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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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

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I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.

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Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

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The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

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