"Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice."
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"All virtue is summed up in dealing justly."
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"Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary"
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"Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified."
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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
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"Pride is both a virtue and a vice."
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"Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum."
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"If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people."
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"No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice."
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"Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not to be forced to become rapacious, a prince must consider it of little importance if he incurs the name of miser, for this is one of the vices that permits him to rule."
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"We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue."
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"Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity."
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"It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd."
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"Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself."
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"How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?"
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"When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa."
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"Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men."
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"Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice."
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"If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false."
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"For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches."
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