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Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for the infinite; but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite.
~ Charles Baudelaire ~
Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
~ Luis Bunuel ~
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
~ Samuel Butler ~
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
~ Confucius ~
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
~ Finley Peter Dunne ~
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
~ Abraham Lincoln ~
He who hates vice hates men.
~ John Morley ~
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
~ Herbert Samuel ~
What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
~ Seneca ~
Every vice has its excuse ready.
~ Publilius Syrus ~
I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.
~ Mark Twain ~
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
~ Thornton Wilder ~
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