Vice Quotes
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
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The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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In general, comedians are attracted to vice.
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Shun all vice, especially card playing.
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
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The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
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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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My involvement with Guantanamo began as vice chief of staff.
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We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.
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When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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What is still more to our shame as civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to vice, and we introduce among them wants and perhaps disease which they never before knew and which serve only to disturb that happy tranquility which they and their forefathers enjoyed. If anyone denies the truth of this assertion, let him tell me what the natives of the whole extent of America have gained by the commerce they have had with Europeans.
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Cheney refers to his vice presidency... as one of the most consequential vice presidencies in American history. And it clearly was.
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In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
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He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.
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Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?
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I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore.
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There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.
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I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
