Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Vices Quotes, Today Quotes

The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a 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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Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

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

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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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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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Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.

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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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I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.

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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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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

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Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.

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Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

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Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

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

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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

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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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