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  • The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.

    Errors   Vices   Rich  
  • What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I'll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors.

    Mentor   Vices   Want  
    Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.341, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Life would be pretty boring if we didn't have vices.

    Vices   Would Be   Boring  
  • It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.

  • We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

  • Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

    Men   Suffering   Vices  
    Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.246
  • We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

  • In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.

    Country   Believe   Vices  
    "Selected Writings". Book by Lester G. Crocker, 1966.
  • He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself.

  • Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

    Character   Mean   Views  
    William Golding (2013). “Moving Target”, p.15, Faber & Faber
  • There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.

    Running   Years   Vices  
  • If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.

  • After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.

  • Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice for support, it may be inferred, with moral certainty, that he is not a man of real respectability, nor is he entitled to public confidence.

    Real   Men   Support  
    Noah Webster (1823). “Letters to a Young Gentleman Commencing His Education: To which is Subjoined a Brief History of the United States”, p.19
  • Make sure you have a vice president in charge of your revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues.

  • He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices; a private citizen without wrong; a neighbor without reproach; a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was a Caesar, without his ambition; Frederick, without his tyranny; Napoleon, without his selfishness, and Washington, without his reward.

    Benjamin Harvey Hill (1891). “Senator Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia: His Life, Speeches and Writings”
  • Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

    Quality   Vices   Virtue  
  • We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman who can give clean wounds, and not rip up his work with the other edge?

    Rip   Evil   Giving  
    Henry David Thoreau (1996). “The nature writings of Henry David Thoreau”
  • Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.

    Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.309
  • The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!

    People   Vices   Would Be  
    Source: www.glamour.com
  • I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life.

    Drug   Trying   Vices  
    Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.99, A&C Black
  • The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her; and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad.

    Night   Vanity   Bird  
    Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books”, p.21
  • A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.

    Men   Age   Vices  
  • 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.

    Vices   May   Facts  
    Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN – Ultimate Collection: 21 Novels & 130+ Short Stories, Fairy Tales and Poems for Children (Illustrated): Including Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm & Penelope Hamilton Series: Rose o' the River, A Summer in a Cañon, The Birds' Christmas Carol, Timothy's Quest, The Arabian Nights, Golden Numbers & many more”, p.2342, e-artnow
  • Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.

    Past   Vices   Energy  
    "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XI, 1840.
  • It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.

    Men   Vices   Tongue  
  • The problem with waiting for someone, whether that wait is an hour or a lifetime, is everyone's 'clock' is different. So what you might consider forever is only a little while to them, or vice versa.

  • The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

    People   Trying   Vices  
  • The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices

    People   Evil   Insulting  
  • There was on section in First Corinthians 13 that talks about (showing) patience, kindness, politeness, how can I demonstrate forgiveness to my children and more fully enjoy them as they're growing up and vice versa. And so, each of those has a day's journey. There are 40 days that people will go through in applying these biblical principles for their kids. We spell them out in layman's terms so it's really easy to grasp a principle.

    "'Courageous' filmmaker Alex Kendrick branches out with a new book, a new Erwin Brothers comedy and a new production company". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 2013.
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