Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.


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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.
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Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
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Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
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Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
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Folks who have no vices have plaguey few virtues.
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NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, t...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Chief of the Army.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anythi...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
To exraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being usef...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Death is nothing; but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Truth alone wounds.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Occupation is the scythe of time.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE