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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure; ours has severest virtue for its basis, and such a friendship ends not but with life.


Joseph Addison

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JOSEPH ADDISON The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
JOSEPH ADDISON The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures
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CARDINAL J. NEWMAN The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. Good friendships, online or...
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KELLY JONES Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of co...
ALBERT J. NOCK Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of con...
ADAM SMITH Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of c...
ADAM SMITH Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue; but also (as they did not see) a school ...
C.S. LEWIS All pleasure is a vice because seeking pleasure is what everyone does in life, and the worst vice of...
FERNANDO PESSOA Virtue practiced to be seen is not real virtue; vice which fears to be seen is real vice
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CHRYSIPPUS In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
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WILLIAM JAMES Change in a trice. The lilies and languors of virtue. For the raptures and roses of vice;
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ALBERT EINSTEIN The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
CONFUCIUS Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue
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DAVID TYSON GENTRY It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there.
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J.D. SALINGER The best antidote to the woes of the world is the right education! The world is full of several woes...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
LYMAN ABBOTT Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
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HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice
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CHRIS DODD Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosp...
FRANCIS BACON Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosp...
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WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
VICTOR HUGO Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue
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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not h...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based...
STEPHEN AMBROSE The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
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SOURCE UNKNOWN For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is ...
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WILLIAM JAMES Its origins are ancient but it burgeons with brash modernity, and it lounges upon its delectable sho...
JAN MORRIS Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.
MENCIUS Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE The meaning of life: For centuries "man" searched for the meaning of life. On that journey, the valu...
DORIS J TORRES Life is short, and that's why, I don't test people; because we all fail tests sometimes, but that is...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
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JOSEPH ADDISON What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattere...
JOSEPH ADDISON Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
JOSEPH ADDISON I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fru...
JOSEPH ADDISON I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot r...
JOSEPH ADDISON What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattere...
JOSEPH ADDISON To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great tru...
JOSEPH ADDISON True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, fr...
JOSEPH ADDISON The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
JOSEPH ADDISON A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed ...
JOSEPH ADDISON O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss,...
JOSEPH ADDISON From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow.
JOSEPH ADDISON I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them f...
JOSEPH ADDISON And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
JOSEPH ADDISON Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r ...
JOSEPH ADDISON It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. ...
JOSEPH ADDISON To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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