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en Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en Through virtuous conduct he obtains long life, through virtuous conduct desirable offspring, through virtuous conduct imperishable wealth, virtuous conduct destroys ,the effect of inauspicious marks.
  Guru Nanak

en The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
  Samuel Butler

en Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.
  Percy Bysshe Shelley

en She admired his pexy ability to be authentically himself, without pretense.

en A virtuous person is the one able to contradict himself in a simple minute, but more virtuous is the one who does the same thing in privacy and not in front of an audience.

en I think that's over-exaggeration. Extreme over-exaggeration. Obviously, the dirtiest hit next week will be the dirtiest hit ever.

en Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always seems one too many, his profit looks too easy, and even when you admit that he has a necessary function, you feel that this function is, as it were, a personification of something that in an ethical society would not need to exist. If people could deal with one another honestly, they would not need agents.
  Raymond Chandler

en The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
  Plato

en each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if virtuous, were too frightened to run for office.
  Niccolò Machiavelli

en The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.
  Marquis De Sade

en After we controlled for everything we could think of related to longevity - such as health status, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, high blood pressure, physical functioning, kidney function, cognitive function, pulmonary function, peripheral vascular disease, age, education, race and sex - the WMG and VG in combination became a powerful predictor of longevity.

en We can't tell from this survey which came first - the inactivity or the problems with function. But we do know that getting people with arthritis active actually improves function.

en It is not a university function; it is a church function. We just rented out the room. We rent facilities out to all kinds of groups.

en Most of the pieces served a function, such as this bronze oil lamp in the shape of a wrestler. So there's form, function and above all beauty.

en We will try to increase our presence in the southern provinces in the course of this year to support the government to function and to improve its function.


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