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He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but to give alms.
Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.
The non-spatial nature of consciousness makes it possible for any apparently unconscious entity to be conscious, and vice versa.
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.
Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.
[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
We now know that Mike Pence - Vice President-elect Mike Pence is going to be in charge of the transition replacing Chris Christie.
It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul.
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.
Envy, slothful vice, Never makes its way in lofty characters, But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls Close to the ground.
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]
Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.
Home Depot knows 'the more they help, the more they sell'-oh by the way, for the 'bottom liners' who disagree-it's also vice-versa.
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.
I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.
Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.
Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.
A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.
The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.
It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
The more I have deep love and compassion for my earth and my fellows, the more love and compassion I have for myself, and vice versa.
Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.
When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.
I don't care how handsome or fabulous or funny the groom is, or how sweet and accommodating the bride, or vice versa. Marriage is hard.
Vice President Spiro Agnew can not cheat on his score : because all you have to do is look back down the fairway and count the wounded.
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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.
After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.
O Lord, I wish to promote thy holy religion which is dreadfully neglected. I am desirous to save young persons from the vices of the age.
No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.
I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman.
Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with his writer.
The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
[On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.
Traditionally vice presidential debates don't move the needle one way or the other. They have largely been irrelevant and inconsequential.
If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.