Horace Quotes, Vices Quotes, Virtue Quotes

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

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

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Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not to be forced to become rapacious, a prince must consider it of little importance if he incurs the name of miser, for this is one of the vices that permits him to rule.

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Vices of the time; vices of the man.

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We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

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Change generally pleases the rich. [Lat., Plerumque gratae divitibus vices.]

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

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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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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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Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

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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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Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

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Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do it right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it.

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

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There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

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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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The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

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