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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Source: Poor Richards Almanack -
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
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An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
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Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
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Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
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Education must have two foundations - morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
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Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence.
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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
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Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.
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I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.
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I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.
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If individuals have no virtues, their vices may be of use to us.
Source: October 5, 1771 -
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
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Left to my own vices, all I would own is a Corvette, and it would be broken down.
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