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• Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Leisure, Busy

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• As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.

  David Brainerd

  Errors, Law, Practice

  David Brainerd (1818). “The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians: From the Honourable Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge; who Died at Northampton in New England, Oct. 9, 1747 ...”, p.473

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• Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Cottages, Court, Vice And Virtue

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.324

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• He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Humorous, Funny Witty

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

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• How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Motivational, Good Morning, Onions

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Seamus Perry (2002). “Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection”, p.71, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Art, Men, Intellectual

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions”

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• We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Virtue, Despise, Vice And Virtue

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• Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

  Walter Scott

  Drinking, Greatness, Alcohol

  Walter Scott (2015). “The Complete Short Stories of Sir Walter Scott: Chronicles of the Canongate, The Keepsake Stories, The Highland Widow, The Tapestried Chamber, Halidon Hill, Auchindrane and many more: From the Great Scottish Writer, Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, Anne of Geierstein, The Betrothed and The Talisman”, p.663, e-artnow

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• Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

  Thornton Wilder

  Integrity, Liars, Two

  1954 The Matchmaker, act 3.

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• I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Particles, Havens

  "Answers to Correspondents". Essay by Mark Twain, first published in The Californian (June 17, 1865), reprinted in Mark Twain's book "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches", 1867.

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• We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

  Seneca the Elder

  Inspirational, Motivational, Passion

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• The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
  Make instruments to plague us.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Full Circle, Instruments

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [172]

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• Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Tolerance, Virtue, Exaggerated

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• Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

  Philip Massinger

  Ambition, Men, Virtue

  'The Bashful Lover' (licensed 1636, published 1655) act 1, sc. 2

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• Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices. It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.

  Alan Greenspan

  Integrity, Self Esteem, Mean

  "Word for Word/'Greenspan Shrugged'; When Greed Was a Virtue And Regulation the Enemy" by Bill Goldstein, www.nytimes.com. July 21, 2002.

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• Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

  Honore de Balzac

  Jealousy, Stupid, Envy

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• No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap

  Juvenal

  Umpires, Evil, Worst

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• Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

  Quintilian

  Father, Ambition, May

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• Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.

  Edward Gorey

  Hurt, Nice, Littles

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• Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Virtue, Mask

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.527

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• Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Members, Detection, Wrongdoing

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.12

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• It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Giving Up, Soul, Useless

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• My major vice is sarcasm with a side of caffeine addiction.

  Rosemary Clement-Moore

  Sarcasm, Addiction, Sides

  Rosemary Clement-Moore (2012). “Brimstone”, p.11, Ember

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• Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Book, Should, Changed

  Oliver Goldsmith (1833). “Miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith: with a new life of the author”, p.219

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• Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.

  Horace

  Lying, Two, Opposites

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