"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."
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"There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer."
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"The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment."
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"Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher."
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"It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none."
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"We pardon familiar vices."
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"Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together."
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"It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at."
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"Avarice is rarely the vice of youth."
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"Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip!"
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"It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries... but our children's friends must show a blank service record."
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"It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man."
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"Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion."
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"While I was in prison, I was indulging in all types of vice, right within the prison. And I never was ostracized as much by the penal authorities while I was participating in all of the evils of the prison, as they tried to ostracize me after I became a Muslim."
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"All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does."
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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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"He hadn’t a single redeeming vice."
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"There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters with the very vice which he himself has been most outspoken in condemning -- without altogether recognizing it beneath the disguise of ambiguous behavior which it assumes in his presence."
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"If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner."
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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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