"Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue."
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"Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice."
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"There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure."
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"I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice."
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"My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely."
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"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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"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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"A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts."
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"It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness."
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"...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete."
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"When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism."
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"Nothing can be more real, or concern us more, than our own sentiments of pleasure and uneasiness; and if these be favourable to virtue and unfavourable to vice, no more can be requisite to the regulation of our conduct and behavior."
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"I believe that I am God's exact intention. It's that balance of virtue and vice."
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"I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices."
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"Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others it is our follies and vices that we behold."
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"For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg."
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"Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices."
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"Affirmative precepts are distinguished from negative whenever one is not comprised in the other; thus, that of honoring parents does not comprise that of not killing, and vice versa."
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"Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert."
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