Government, as it was forced upon mankind by their vices, so has it commonly been the creature of their ignorance and mistake.
William Godwin
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Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.
Konrad Lorenz
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As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.
David Brainerd
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
Walter Lippmann
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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.
John Jewel
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Right now, I'm very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.
Johnny Galecki
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A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
Plutarch
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Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
Juvenal
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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Charles Dickens
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
Walter Scott
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Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.
Abdolkarim Soroush
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