Quotes 41 till 56 of 56.
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The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
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Then leave Complaints: Fools only strive
To make a Great an Honest Hive.
T'enjoy the World's Conveniences,
Be fam'd in War, yet live in Ease,
Without great Vices, is a vain
Eutopia seated in the Brain.The Fable of the Bees The Moral, line 1, p. 23 -
Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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We endeavor to avoid censure by concealing our Vices under an Appearance of their opposite Virtues
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We endeavour to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.
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