Quotes 81 till 100 of 138.
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
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She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.
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So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
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So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
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So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.
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Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.
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Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
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The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
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The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
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The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
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The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
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