A Quote by Luc de Clapiers
When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.
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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.
Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.
Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.
Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.
Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.
So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
Neither our vices nor our virtues further the poem.
If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.
We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it, it will either heighten our virtues, or inflame our vices.
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