Vice Quotes
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I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
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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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This vice brings in one hundred million francs in taxes every year. I will certainly forbid it at once - as soon as you can name a virtue that brings in as much revenue.
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What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.
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The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out.
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I don't define anything I eat as a vice.
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So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
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A man given to vice is always an idealist.
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That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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[In China at that time:] The penalty for adultery is death by strangulation. Mai-da's mother has added the following note to this section; 'Adultery is a feminine vice. Copulation on the man's part is not his wife's concern, unless he sires a child. Then she must accept the child as one of his homestead.
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A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.
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In arriving at the relevant theory about the specifics of our faculty of vision we will presumably use our eyes to gather relevant data. Based on such data we come to know about the optic nerve, the structure of our eyes, the rods and cones, etc., so as to explain how it is that vision gives us reliable access to the shapes and colors of objects around us. In reliably arriving at that theory we thus exercise the very faculty whose reliability is explained by the theory. There is no vice in this sort of circularity.
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Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.
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A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.
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Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the same quality from two sides; on one it is a fault, on the other a merit. The essential of a man is found concealed far below these moral badges.
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Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.
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One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.
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As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power’s always zero sum — my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.
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That low vice, curiosity!
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It’s like someone has your scrotum in a small vice.
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Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
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Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy the peace, the happiness of a hoe.
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There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.
