"That low vice, curiosity!"
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"So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice."
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"A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues."
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"Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues."
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"What is pity but the vice of kindness."
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"Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it."
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"What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few."
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"Let thy vices die before thee."
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"Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly."
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"What maintains one vice would bring up two children."
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"The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other."
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".. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal in the whole species."
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"Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail."
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"If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?"
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"We don't see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of it - everywhere we look, from billboard signs to movies, to newspapers, to magazines. We see the destruction of human life."
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"I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant."
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"Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues."
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"Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do it right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it."
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"The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate."
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"Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness."
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