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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.


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Folks who have no vices have plaguey few virtues.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
CHARLES DICKENS Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
JUVENAL I cannot," said he, "expect everyone to have my virtues. It's good enough to meet with my vices...
ANDRé GIDE Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.
EDWARD GIBBON Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
NAPOLéON BONAPARTE Conquer your vices. Exploit your virtues. Release your vices. Embrace your higher self.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so head he many vices; . . . he had two distinct persons in hi...
ROBERT BURTON We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
DENIS DIDEROT We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates
DENIS DIDEROT Search others for virtues, thyself for thy vices.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It's Shakespeare, to have a single family in which human flaws and virtues are on such vivid display...
JON MEACHAM Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues.
GREEK PROVERB The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
RENE DESCARTES Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must ca...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.
JUNIUS It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one's disaster
REBECCA WEST The merely just can generally bear great virtues as little as great vices.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
WINSTON CHURCHILL He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL No company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their...
COLTON It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguishe...
JONATHAN SWIFT He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
WINSTON CHURCHILL No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disea...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, ...
WALTER LIPPMANN (Sir Stafford Cripps) has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire
WINSTON CHURCHILL Changing prejudice often inverts the value of words while preserving most of their sense; virtues ar...
JOHN SHEARMAN An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtu...
WALTER BAGEHOT No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their vir...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact th...
ERICH FROMM Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you nee...
SUZANNE COLLINS Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is de...
GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and ...
G.K. CHESTERTON He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all th...
LORD BYRON The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly...
ANN RADCLIFFE Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, t...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to ...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to ...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR the problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure there going to ha...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.
JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.
JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evol...
AMBROSE BIERCE The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Plutarch slides the sketchbook across to me.
SUZANNE COLLINS Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as ...
LYSANDER SPOONER Politics: Poly.
MANY It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A man treats his own faults as original sin and supposes them scattered everywhere with the seed of ...
G.K. CHESTERTON How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming tr...
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH He pressed a kiss to her forehead. “Ye be a sight for sore eyes, lass,” he told her. “But we�...
SUZAN TISDALE How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares
if there seemed any danger of their comi...
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of thei...
KARL WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of thei...
WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. I...
ROGER ROSENBLATT The superstitious, who know how to reprove vices rather than how to teach virtues, and who strive, n...
BARUCH SPINOZA He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

WINSTON S. CHURCHILL People either build a castle or a dungeon. The former by their virtues, pull people into positive ed...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach the...
BARUCH SPINOZA We know how many people are flying on these routes, and the numbers are not sufficient to justify ad...
BRAD DIFIORE You can wear it for daytime, or darken it for nighttime.
ELIZABETH THOMAS Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY We do not agree that she was an 'accomplished liar' - the few examples cited are, with respect, not ...
HERMAN BROODRYK Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.
GEORGE CHAPMAN In 'Plutarch,' her voice begins to come out; there are actual 2,000-year-old quotes from Cle...
STACY SCHIFF Vices are their own punishment
AESOP Dogs are loyal, patient, fearless, forgiving, and capable of pure love. Virtues that few people get ...
M.K. CLINTON Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Where facts are few, experts are many.
DONALD R. GANNON Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
HORACE MANN Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins
HORACE MANN Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength withou...
JOHN CAM HOBHOUSE For many are called, but few are chosen.
BIBLE It is often too easy to explain a novel idea to a few enlightened persons with a few words. But to e...
ANUJ SOMANY Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need o...
MARQUIS DE SADE Vices are often habits rather than passions
ANTOINE RIVAROL Vices are often habits rather than passions.
ANTOINE RIVAROL What once were vices are manners now.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) What once were vices are manners now.
SENECA The vices of some men are magnificent.
CHARLES LAMB There are many more issues involved in regionalizing heart attack care, with proximity to specialize...
BRAHMAJEE NALLAMOTHU How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS It is a sin against hospitality, to open your doors and darken your countenance
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