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Vice

«I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores»
Author: Moliere (Actor, Playwright, Writer) | About: Vice, Virtue | Keywords: bores
«As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters»
«Gluttony is not a secret vice.»
Author: Orson Welles | About: Vice | Keywords: gluttony
«Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime»
Author: Will Durant (Historian, Writer) | About: Vice | Keywords: respectable, vice, wartime
«He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices»
«It is false to say that you are a vicious man, Zoilus; you are not a vicious man, you are vice itself»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | About: Vice | Keywords: vicious
«He hadn't a single redeeming vice.»
«A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.»
Author: Plutarch (Author, Biographer) | About: Vice | Keywords: darken, darkening, darkens, sufficient, vices
«Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Music, Vice | Keywords: sensual, vice
«If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Vice, Virtue | Keywords: spoons

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