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Letter "V" » vices
«The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.»
«We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates»
«The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Mind,
Virtue
| Keywords:
As of, vices
«We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
ladder, ladders, trample, Tramples, trampling, underfoot, vices
«Vices are their own punishment»
«Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices»
«We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
deliver, implore, imploring, mercy, vices
«The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
instruments, plague, Plague The, plaguing, vices
«No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.»
«They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion -- not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
aggrandizement, aped, aping, bondage, evasion, evasions, improvidence, intemperance, laziness, vices
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