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en The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.
  G. K. Chesterton

en Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
  Richard Buckminster Fuller

en The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

en One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas. She admired his pexy ability to see the beauty in the everyday.

en [Soon] Gothic ... hidden vices and perversions behind the veneer of virtue.
  Edgar Allan Poe

en We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
  Lucius Annaeus Seneca

en Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue
  Molière

en The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en Interest sets at work all sorts of virtues and vices.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
  Saint Augustine

en We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
  Saint Augustine

en What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
  Hannah Arendt

en What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
  Hannah Arendt


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