"The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity."
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"A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices."
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"Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa."
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"Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything."
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"If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself, since I am a human being too."
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"The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues."
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"I rarely drink, I don't smoke, so my vice is probably creating. I'm addicted to creating. And women."
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"I have my once-a-month nachos, but it's soy cheese and turkey chili on it, so it's somewhat safe. But it's still a big vice for me, because I have a big bowl of it."
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"There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice."
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"Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it."
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"Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency."
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"Jewish history has been tragic to the Jews and no less tragic to the neighboring nations who have suffered them. Our major vice of old as of today is parasitism. We are a people of vultures living on the labor and good fortune of the rest of the world."
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"Understanding how to be a good investor makes you a better business manager and vice versa."
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"Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent."
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"The Soviet system will not evolve into American democracy or vice-versa."
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"The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success."
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"Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will."
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"This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice."
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"The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose."
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"The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us."
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