Quotes by Vices The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out. Aristippus entering vices lying Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today. Aristophanes vices age today When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa. Aristotle vices class people Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency. Aristotle vices two mean 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. Aristotle causes vices character All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. Aristotle vices character people The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate. Aristotle passion vices fall Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice. Aristotle vices two mean For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches. Aristotle riches lines vices Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do it right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it. Aristotle acting vices doe I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words. Arnold Schoenberg vices feelings way The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives. Arthur Helps tolerate vices world Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others it is our follies and vices that we behold. Arthur Schopenhauer vices exercise men Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little. Augustus Hare too-much vices littles Humor is not an unconditional virtue; its moral character depends on its object. To laugh at the contemptible, is a virtue; to laugh at the good, is a hideous vice. Too often, humor is used as the camouflage of moral cowardice. Ayn Rand vices character laughing What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa. B. F. Skinner what-is-love vices names And Joe Biden, thank you for being the best Vice President I could ever hope for. Barack Obama biden vices president Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. But liberty, you see, that precious child of our liberal democracy only two hundred years old, has one notable side effect. When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice. In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system. Barbara Amiel virtue liberty vices Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness. Barbara Kingsolver meals vices soul Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. Barry Goldwater defense liberty vices «1234567891011»