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Alas, human
vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be,
contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion)
of man's longing for the infinite; but it is a longing that
often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason
behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the
sense of the infinite.
-- Charles Baudelaire
1821-1867, French Poet
There are men
so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer
will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is
abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft
is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached
that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally
pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be
recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented,
incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore,
must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a
world in which he is not fit to be at large.
-- William Booth
1829-1912, British Religious
Leader, Salvation Army Founder
The vices we
scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
-- Thomas Edward Brown
Tobacco and
alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and
fertile reveries.
-- Luis Bunuel
1900-1983, Spanish Film
Director
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Half the vices
which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in
them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence.
-- Samuel Butler
1612-1680, British Poet,
Satirist
The function
of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
-- Samuel Butler
1612-1680, British Poet,
Satirist
Every day
confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life --
and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other
stipend annexed to it.
-- Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet
Let them show
me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which
they accuse the courts.
-- Lord Chesterfield
1694-1773, British Statesman,
Author
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