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Letter "V" » vice
«In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.»
Author: Denis Diderot
| Keywords:
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«But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Liberty,
Virtue,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
evils, folly, in restraint, madness, restraint, tuition, vice
«A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
American, American politics, at issue, avoidance, issues, issuing, politics, saying, take issue, typical, vice
«Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime»
«As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Virtue
| Keywords:
As Far, concerned, ostentatious, prefer, silent, vice, virtue
«Christianity gave Eros poison to drink: he did not die of it but degenerated - into vice»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
Christianity, degenerated, degenerates, degenerating, drink, Eros, gave, poison, vice
«Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends... with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
adulteress, adulteresses, advance, along, girl, incestuous, progress, rapidity, sodomite, sodomites, stroke, stroked, The Strokes, thorny, vice
«He hadn't a single redeeming vice.»
«Every vice has its excuse ready.»
«And, being rich, my virtue then shall be,To say there is no vice, but beggary.»
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