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Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.
I am the first to admit that were I not a woman, I would not have been the vice-presidential nominee.
If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory.
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.
What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.
Nobody on this earth is perfect. Everybody has their flaws; everybody has their dark secrets and vices.
Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.
When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family.
Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.
If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.
...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete.
Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.
It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.
Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.
The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.
You're more likely to vote Democratic if you hate Republicans than if you love Democrats, and vice versa.
I'm not interested in being Donald Trump or anybody else's vice president, that's not what I'm aiming at.
Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.
It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.
Right now, Im very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.
Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.
Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime.
Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.
I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.
A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.
The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.
We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.
Right now, I'm very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.
Music informs my work so intensely. The better actor I become, the better pianist I become, and vice versa.
The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!
I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed. I lied." Silk said. "It's a vice I have.
We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.
It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.
Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.
The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa.
My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely.
Beware of flattery! 'tis a flowery weed, Which oft offends the very idol-vice, Whose shrine it would perfume.
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.