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The disgrace
of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
-- Horace
BC 65-8, Italian Poet
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
1894-1963, British Author
We do not
despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those
that have no virtue.
-- Francois De La
Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical
Writer
The vices of
some men are magnificent.
-- Charles Lamb
1775-1834, British Essayist,
Critic
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It has been my
experience that folks who have no vices have very few
virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth
President of the USA
A prince must
be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation
of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must
protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if
this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern
himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli
1469-1527, Italian Author,
Statesman
He who hates
vice hates men.
-- John Morley
1838-1923, British
Journalist, Biographer, Statesman
Life is
extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty,
affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are
capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in
public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single
one. There is something supple and secret about them.
Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent
occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night.
-- Marcel Proust
1871-1922, French Novelist
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