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Plotinus NULL

For most or even all forms of evil serve the Universe - much as the poisonous snake has it use - though in most cases their function is unknown. Vice itself has many useful sides: it brings about much that is beautiful, in artistic creations for example, and it stirs us to thoughtful living, not allowing us to drowse in security.

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Francis Quarles

The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber. If virtue accompanies beauty it is the heart's paradise; if vice be associate with it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fools furnace.

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Francis Quarles

Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart’s paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul’s purgatory. It is the wise man’s bonfire, and the fool’s furnace.

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Quintilian, fully Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, also Quintillian and Quinctilian NULL

What is good readily changes for the worse, but you can never turn vice into virtue.

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Barnaby Rich

One vice spilles a greate noumber of vertues.

Character | Vice |

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W. D. Ross, fully Sir William David Ross

No act is ever, in virtue of falling under some general description, necessarily actually right... moral acts often (as every one knows) and indeed always (on reflection we must admit) have different characteristics that tend to make them a the same time prima facie right and prima facie wrong; there is probably no act, for instance, which does good to anyone without doing harm to someone else, and vice versa.

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Charles Reade

Judicious absence is a weapon.

Absence | Character |

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Noah benShea

Strength is not the absence of weaknesses but how we wrestle with our weaknesses.

Absence | Character | Strength |

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Sydney Smith

If idleness do not produce vice or malevolence, it commonly produces melancholy.

Character | Idleness | Melancholy | Vice |

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Publilius Clodius Thrasea Paetus (sometimes inverted Paetus Thrasea)

He who hates vice hates men. [hate [moral] failings and you hate people]

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Jonathan Swift, pen names, M.B. Drapier, Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

Avarice | Character | Mankind | Vice |

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Jonathan Swift, pen names, M.B. Drapier, Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff

There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.

Character | Folly | Skill | Vice |

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Richard Steele, fully Sir Richard Steele

I know no evil so great as the abuse of the understanding, and yet there is no one vice more common.

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John H. Aughey, fully John Hill Aughey

Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open enemies.

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Mark Twain, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.

Absence | Character | Courage | Fear |

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Ralph Venning

Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.

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Leonard M. Zunin

I believe that courage is all too often mistakenly seen as the absence of fear... Courage is seeing your fear, in a realistic perspective, defining it, considering alternatives and choosing to function in spite of risks.

Absence | Character | Courage | Fear |

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