355 Quotes About Vices

  • Author James Mackintosh
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    A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

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  • Author John McCain
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    I want to tell the vice president and everybody else that when I'm president there will be a controlling legal authority.

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  • Author John Milton
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    Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.

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  • Author John Milton
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    What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

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  • Author Michel de Montaigne
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    To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is our own.

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  • Author Michel de Montaigne
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    Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.

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