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A vice is a failure of desire. - Gerald Stanley Lee, Crowds (bk. IV, ch. XIII) It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. - Abraham Lincoln It is not possible now to keep a young gentleman from vice by a total ignorance of it, unless you will all his life mew him up in a closet and never let him go into company. - John Locke (1) 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. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Ladder of St. Augustine (st. 1) Spare the person, but lash the vice. - Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis) Who called thee vicious was a lying elf; thou art not vicious, for thou art vice itself. - Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis) I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride. - John Milton I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores. - Moliere (pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Poquelin) Vices are often hid under the name of virtues, and the practice of them followed by the worst consequences. I have seen ladies indulge their own ill-humor by being very rude and impertinent, and think they deserve approbation by saying, "I love to speak the truth." - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu To vice innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery. - Ouida (pseudonym of Marie Louise de la Ramee) Human nature is not of itself vicious. - Thomas Paine There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches. - Blaise Pascal Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues. - Plato (originally Aristocles} A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues. - Plutarch Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good. - Alexander Pope Led by my hand, he saunter'd Europe round, And gather'd every vice on Christian ground. - Alexander Pope Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost? - Alexander Pope, Epilogue to Satires (dialogue I) Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated need but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 217) The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice." - Alexander Pope, Horace (bk. II, ep. II, l. 216) No penance can absolve out guilty fame; Nor tears, that wash out sin, can wash out shame. - Matthew Prior Many without punishment, none without sin. - John Ray (Wray) The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections. - Antoine de Rivarol, Comte de Rivarol Vices are often habits rather than passions. - Antoine de Rivarol, Comte de Rivarol Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together. - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) We pardon familiar vices. - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Displaying page 4 of 5 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5
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