Quotes 21 till 40 of 56.
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Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
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Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
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Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful - if strenuously led - as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.
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Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
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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.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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Private Vices by the dextrous Management of a skilful Politician may be turned into Publick Benefits.
The Fable of the Bees A Search into the Nature of Society, p. 428 -
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
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The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.
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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices;
Make instruments to plague us.King Lear 5, 3 -
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
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The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.
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