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"He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles."
"Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them."
"Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously"
"He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them."
"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."
"What were once vices are the fashion of the day."
"Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices."
"There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war."
"As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered."
"I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue."
"All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members."
"Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice."
"For lawless joys a bitter ending waits."
"Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask."
"In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice."
"We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates."
"Suppose something would happen to the president, who would be in charge? The Vice President. Joe Biden? You have got to be kidding today when you say the Taliban's not our enemy."
"The vices come as passengers, visit us as guest and stay as masters."
"For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort."
"No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced."
