Alexander Pope Quotes, Pride Quotes, Vices Quotes

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

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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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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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The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

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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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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

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

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Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

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That low vice, curiosity!

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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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The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a 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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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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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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The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.

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