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quotes by topic Vice

" No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice "

Practice , Vice

" There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. "

Oliver Goldsmith

Excellence , Virtue , Faults , Vice

" Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps. "

Virtue , Reward , Vice

" Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues. "

Ambition , Vice , Cause

" The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice. "

Mind , Virtue , Contemplation , Character , Vice , Multiplicity , Variety

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

Saint Augustine

Vice

" Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. "

Virtue , Vice

" Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment. "

Mind , Delight , Punishment , Vice

" In the first place I spent most of my time at home, reading. I tried to stifle all that was continually seething within me by means of external impressions. And the only external means I had was reading. Reading, of course, was a great help--exciting me, giving me pleasure and pain. But at times it bored me fearfully. One longed for movement in spite of everything, and I plunged all at once into dark, underground, loathsome vice of the pettiest kind. My wretched passions were acute, smarting, from my continual, sickly irritability I had hysterical impulses, with tears and convulsions. I had no resource except reading, that is, there was nothing in my surroundings which I could respect and which attracted me. I was overwhelmed with depression, too; I had an hysterical craving for incongruity and for contrast, and so I took to vice. I have not said all this to justify myself .... But, no! I am lying. I did want to justify myself. I make that little observation for my own benefit, gentlemen. I don't want to lie. I vowed to myself I would not. "

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Reading , Vice

Practice , Vice

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