"Vices of the time; vices of the man."
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"I want to use things I learn about writing in my acting, and vice versa."
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"What makes Existence really nice Is Virtue--with a dash of Vice."
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"I'm still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack.But then,it might not have been a question of right or wrong. Which is to say that wrong choices can produce right results, and vice versa. I myself have adopted the position that,in fact, we never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not."
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"The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest."
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"Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills."
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"What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one."
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"The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life."
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"It may be said that the vices await us in the journey of life like hosts with whom we must successively lodge; and I doubt whether experience would make us avoid them if we were to travel the same road a second time."
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"Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice."
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"Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight."
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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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"Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being."
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"When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices."
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"We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy."
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"Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices."
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"... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance."
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"Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice."
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"Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices."
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"The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice."
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