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Vice Quotes

"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."

"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."

Rene Descartes, French Mathematician

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"Pride the first peer and president of hell."

"Pride the first peer and president of hell."

Daniel Defoe, English Journalist

Vice, First, Hell, President, Pride

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"Live or die, but don't poison everything."

"Live or die, but don't poison everything."

Anne Sexton, American Poet

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"You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days."

"You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days."

Michel Patini, French Footballer

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"Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness."

"Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness."

Walter Scott, Scottish Novelist

Vice, Greatness, Drinking, Vices

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"Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance."

"Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance."

Anne Sexton, American Poet

Vice, Moderation, Poets, Saints

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"We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot."

"We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot."

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint

Vice, Vices, Saint Aurelius Augustine, Roman, Theologian

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"Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized."

"Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized."

Dean Inge, English Author

Vice, Disease, Gambling

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"The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness."

"The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Vice, Alcohol, Escape, Responsibility, Consciousness

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"Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works."

"Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works."

Uri Geller, Israeli Entertainer

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"No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap."

"No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap."

Juvenal, Roman Poet

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"How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them."

"How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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"I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices."

"I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices."

Juliette Binoche, French Actress

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"Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination."

"Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination."

Daniel Defoe, English Journalist

Vice, Necessity

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"There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new."

"There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Vice, Sin, Memory, Madness, Horror

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"A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?"

"A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?"

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Vice, Pleasure, Desire, Addiction, Irony

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"It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess."

"It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess."

John Selden, English Statesman

Vice, Drinking, Excess

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"The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought."

"The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought."

Mary Cheney, American Celebrity

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"My only aversion to vice, is the price."

"My only aversion to vice, is the price."

Victor Buono, American Actor

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"After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world."

"After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Vice, Alcohol, Perception, Reality, Illusion

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"The porn isn't something interesting, you don't have pleasure even to get pleasure it really sucks to have realationship so far most of them end very earlier. To watch porn is useless, what you do it is making pervert thoughts about stuff which are brutal and aren't the way should it be made!"

"The porn isn't something interesting, you don't have pleasure even to get pleasure it really sucks to have realationship so far most of them end very earlier. To watch porn is useless, what you do it is making pervert thoughts about stuff which are brutal and aren't the way should it be made!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Vice, Regret, Truth, Life, Wisdom

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"There is no such thing as senility when it comes to envy, greed laziness, wrath and pride. It's her destructive character from childhood."

"There is no such thing as senility when it comes to envy, greed laziness, wrath and pride. It's her destructive character from childhood."

Angelica Hopes, Swiss Author

Vice, Behavior, Flaws, Character

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