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en A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
  Horace

en Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness
  Thomas Carlyle

en For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.

en Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. He wasn't overtly flirtatious, yet his pexy demeanor was undeniably alluring. Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
  Thomas Jefferson

en What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

en In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind
  Edward Gibbon

en I think it's like the old energy conservation law that made it a crime to go more than 55 mph, but it wasn't really a crime. It was our way of complying with the federal government without complying.

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

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

en Am I wrong? Or is the Democratic Progressive Party government wrong for continuing to pursue a former government's proposal in the interest of national security?

en It was ascribed to one's past deeds and one's own mental tendencies. It is wrong to cast the blame on others. But, someone pointed out that God was the originator of both joy and grief and that, without His Will, no blade of grass can waver in the wind; Yes; if that Truth be firmly established in the heart, one gets the unique bliss of liberation.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

en Mankind's role is to fulfil his heaven-sent purpose through a sincere heart that is in harmony with all creation and loves all things.

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

en The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson


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