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Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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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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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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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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No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

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HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.

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Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.

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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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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

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The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

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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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If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.

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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

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The supreme vice is shallowness.

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

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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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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

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