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• Here’s a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Vices, Practice, Rule

• Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Vices, Greatest, Own, Wealth, Deep

• We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Vices, Despise

• It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

  Walter Bagehot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Vices, Evil, Temptation

• The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Vices, Virtue

• An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

  Walter Bagehot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Virtues, Vices, Incidents, Exaggeration

• Nature seems at each man’s birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

  Tags in Determined, Vices

• The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

  Tags in Vices, Self-Interest

• Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Tags in Virtues, Vices

• Although all the good arts serve to draw man’s mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Tags in Vices, Performed

• Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Government, Thoughtless, Decay, Vices

• You can’t act like a skunk without someone’s getting wind of it.

  Lorene Workman

  Tags in Vices, Foibles

• Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.

  Barbara Walters

  Tags in Vices, Foibles