Adam Smith Quotes, Fear Quotes, Vices Quotes

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

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

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Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.

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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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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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

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If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?

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

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

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

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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.

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

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

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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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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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Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.

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