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Vice Quotes

"Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgment and misguide the mind What the weak head with strongest bias rules Is pride the never-failing vice of fools"
Alexander Pope
"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues"
Franz Kafka
"Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need"
Voltaire
"Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice"
Samuel Johnson
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues"
Rene Descartes
"Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men the good and the bad But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue"
David Hume
"One of the great attractions of patriotism it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous."
Aldous Huxley
"It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels"
Saint Augustine
"Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco."
Emile Zola
"Where envy reigns virtue can't live."
Miguel de Cervantes
"Sadness is a vice"
Gustave Flaubert
"Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them"
Michel de Montaigne
"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience"
Adam Smith
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