"I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores."
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"One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it."
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"Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary."
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"Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue."
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"Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us."
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"Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all."
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"Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised."
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"No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors."
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"Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding."
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"Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker."
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"Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice."
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"I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever."
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"Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice."
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"We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them."
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"The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins."
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"Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world."
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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
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"On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents."
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"When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa."
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"Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be served."
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