Honore De Balzac Quotes, Clothes Quotes, Vices Quotes

A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.

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Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

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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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Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.

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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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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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Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified.

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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

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It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.

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The vices come as passengers, visit us as guest and stay as masters.

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He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.

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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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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

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Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

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

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For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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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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If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.

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