"Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy."
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"Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society."
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"There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious."
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"Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]"
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"Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice."
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"Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue."
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"High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light."
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"If they want to know if prostitutes are positive, they should test the Vice cops."
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"Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a trail of graft and slime It don't prohibit worth a dime It's filled our land with vice and crime, Nevertheless, we're for it."
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"A man given to vice is always an idealist."
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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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"Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice."
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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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"Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?"
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"Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice."
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"Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself."
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"The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it."
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"The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet."
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"Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?"
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"It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues."
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