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Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.
Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.
I'm not running for Vice President, I'm not looking to be anyone's vice president, I want to be the president.
On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.
Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.
The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. For this one need not break the law of the land.
My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.
If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.
This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.
Moliere exaggerates common vices of mankind: lust, greed, misanthropy, hypocrisy. We all have a touch of these.
I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.
What has the women’s movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro’s candidacy for vice president? Never get married.
Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.
All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.
If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.
When has a Democratic political activist been poisoned by the GOP, or vice versa? We are not the same as #Putin.
I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.
High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.
The role of the vice president is to break ties in the Senate and inquire daily into the health of the president.
Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.
We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
Oh, I don't know. I might grow on you." She furrowed her pretty eyebrows. "Like a cancer?" "Like a favorite vice.
Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]
Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it.
We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.
It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices.
Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.
There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa.
Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.
Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.
Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.
The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.
Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.
You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.
It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.
Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.
IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.
The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.
Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.
When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me ... or is it vice versa?
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.
Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
Sometimes crowds start out not liking someone but then they shift and love them. Or vice versa. It can shift on a dime.
I didn’t find it difficult to live in the “Inherent Vice” world or play those scenes, because they just seemed so real.