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"Over the years, Charlie [Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman] and I have observed many accounting-based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have been punished; many have not even been censured. It has been far safer to steal large sums with pen than small sums with a gun."
"One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner"
"Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence."
"Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function."
"Pride eradicates all vices but itself."
"Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself"
"Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off."
"Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty."
"It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster."
"Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour."
"A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa."
"In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now."
"The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa."
"He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice."
"Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed ."
"We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice."
"If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice" or "legal" and "criminal," for, in the strength to set standards, resides the strength to maintain control."
"Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers."
"I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous as they are, as I have with my impatience. My efforts are not absolutely useless; yet I have never been able to conquer this ferocious wild beast."
"Cowardice was undoubtedly one of the most terrible vices - thus spoke Yeshua Ha-Nozri. 'No, philosopher, I disagree with you: it is the most terrible vice!"
