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The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
I'm all for education - in fact, I have spent my career extolling its virtues.
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
German virtues are now about technically good players playing attacking football.
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.
In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.
'Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues.
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
In the nineties, the PT had wrongly decided to attribute its electoral failures to its virtues.
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.
It may be very difficult to keep the virtues of purity, passion, and sacrifice of love in real life.
Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.
Respect all manner of men regardless of their station in life. Compassion is one of the greatest virtues.
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.
To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.
Non-conformity has always been one of the great British virtues, and that includes non-conformity to things British.
The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not virtues.
Conductors make too much fuss about conductors! Humility and hard work are virtues. We're nothing without our musicians.
If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
Sanitation and cleanliness are among the humblest of the civic virtues, and it is easy to underestimate their significance.