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Letter "V" » vice
«I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.»
Author: Barry Goldwater
(Politician, Senator)
| Keywords:
defense, extremism, justice, liberty, moderation, pursuit, remind, vice, virtue, with moderation
«Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
ascetic, ascetics, condemn, condemning, drive, drive in, has-been, history, pleasures, power, religions, seek, sense, The Vice, throughout, vice
«Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Adversity,
Virtue
| Keywords:
adversity, discovers, prosperity, vice
«Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Pride
| Keywords:
vice
«It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
American, American Express, democratic, disease, expresses, herd, herding, level, reducing, The American, The Herd, tyranny, unique, vice
«I prefer an accommodating vice to an obstinate virtue»
Author: Moliere
(Actor, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
accommodated, accommodates, accommodating, obstinate, prefer, vice
«Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice»
«It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none»
«Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Moderation,
Virtue
| Keywords:
in principle, moderation, temper, vice
«Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, / Such are the Gates of Paradise.»
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