George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Vices Quotes, Morality Quotes

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

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For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

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The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

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In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

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

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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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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

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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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He hadn’t a single redeeming 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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If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.

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

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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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Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

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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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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

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A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.

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Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

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