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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend read more
The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.
Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue
is at hand.
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue
is at hand.
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the read more
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.
Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
