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• Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Light, Sight, Firsts

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.64, Oxford University Press

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• Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

  Frank Sinatra

  Music, Prayer, Night

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• All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

  Morris West

  Corruption, Institutions, Members

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• Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

  Alexander Pope

  Monsters, Needs, Faces

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 2 (1733) l. 217

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• The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.

  Thomas Browne

  Laughing, Virtue, Vice And Virtue

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici. Its sequel, Christian Morals ... With resemblant passages from Cowper's Task, and a verbal index. [Edited by John Peace.]”, p.183

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• Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it

  Finley Peter Dunne

  You Like It, Creatures, Hideous

  Finley Peter Dunne (1963). “Mr. Dooley remembers: the informal memoirs of Finley Peter Dunne”

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• Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.

  John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

  Inspirational, Hate, Self Hate

  John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, John Greenleaf Whittier (1832). “The Literary Remains of J.G.C. Brainard: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.156

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• Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

  Confucius

  Thinking, Looks, May

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• Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful -- if strenuously led -- as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.

  Aldous Huxley

  Christian, Mistake, Sacrifice

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices.

  Juliette Binoche

  Casts

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• To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.

  Edward Gibbon

  Eye, Virtue, Clergy

  Edward Gibbon, M. Guizot (François) (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.421

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• But are sailors, frequenters of fiddlers' greens, without vices? No; but less often than with landsmen do their vices, so called, partake of crookedness of heart, seeming less to proceed from viciousness than exuberance of vitality after long constraint: frank manifestations in accordance with natural law.

  Herman Melville

  Heart, Law, Long

  Herman Melville (2009). “Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales”, p.259, OUP Oxford

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• Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

  Carl Jung

  Drinking, Recovery, Overcoming Addiction

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 12 (1962)

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• Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

  Samuel Johnson

  Musical, Sensual, Pleasure

  In 'European Magazine' (1795) p. 82

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• Let thy vices die before thee.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Thee, Poor Richard, Dies

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.60, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.

  Isaac Barrow

  Men, Dry, May

  Isaac Barrow, Thomas Smart Hughes (1831). “Works”, p.247

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• Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety.

  John William Fletcher

  World, Vicious, Piety

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• I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

  Moliere

  Interesting, Virtue, Bores

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• Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Revolution, Courageous, Rebellious

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.311, e-artnow

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• Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man

  Konrad Lorenz

  Men, Primitive Man, Demise

  Konrad Lorenz (1966). “On aggressión”

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• But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity

  G. B. Caird

  Sincerity, Demonic, Humans

  George Bradford Caird, G. B. Caird, L. D. Hurst (1995). “New Testament Theology”, p.147, Oxford University Press

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• Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

  William Shakespeare

  Adversity, Clothes, Gowns

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Measure for Measure”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

  Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

  People, Virtue, Condemning

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• As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life. I don't think it is more dangerous than alcohol.

  Barack Obama

  Weed, Kids, Thinking

  "Obama: Marijuana no more dangerous than alcohol", www.foxnews.com. January 19, 2014.

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• Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Wisdom, 4th Of July

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.12, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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