Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Quality Quotes, Vices Quotes

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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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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Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

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

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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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He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.

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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

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Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

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

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

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

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It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man.

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That low vice, curiosity!

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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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Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

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

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Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

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