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Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue


Quintilian

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Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
EDGAR QUINET Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
EDGAR QUINET Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
HOSEA BALLOU What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
HENRY FIELDING Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
QUINTILIAN Virtue practiced to be seen is not real virtue; vice which fears to be seen is real vice
CHINESE PROVERBS Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.
ADAM GRANT Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice
JOSEPH JOUBERT Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of obser...
HARRIET MARTINEAU Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of obser...
HARRIET MARTINEAU Ambition is not a vice of little people.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
ALEXANDER POPE Vigilance is the virtue of vice.
C. J. WEBER For the most part, people strenuously resist any redefinition of morality, because it shakes them to...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
CONFUCIUS Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
CONFUCIUS Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Patience is a virtue not a vice.
JAACHYNMA N.E. AGU The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
BERGEN EVANS Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice
THOMAS PAINE Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
THOMAS PAINE It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The vice among hypocrites is their virtue
DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a ...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a ...
BERNARD DE MANDEVILLE A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; b...
THOMAS PAINE A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, b...
THOMAS PAINE Virtue is choked with foul ambition.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable i...
WILL DURANT Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable i...
WILL DURANT Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue; but also (as they did not see) a school ...
C.S. LEWIS Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
SAMUEL BUTLER The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
SAMUEL BUTLER A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- ...
LYMAN ABBOTT There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.
GROVER NORQUIST That vice pays homage to virtue is notorious; we call it hypocrisy
SAMUEL BUTLER Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
VICTOR HUGO Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the p...
SAMUEL BECKETT Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, compreh...
DICK CHENEY Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery; with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and mis...
BLAISE PASCAL Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of co...
ALBERT J. NOCK Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of con...
ADAM SMITH Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of c...
ADAM SMITH Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ...
GEORGES BIZET Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ...
GEORGES BIZET But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; fo...
EDMUND BURKE But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; ...
EDMUND BURKE Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
FRANCIS BACON Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
FRANCIS BACON Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue
FRANCIS BACON SR. Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
HORACE WALPOLE To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and ...
G.K. CHESTERTON A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
BRENDAN FRANCIS Any virtue taken to the extreme becomes a vice; unfortunately it doesn't work the other way.
JIM GENOVESE The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice
ALEXANDER POPE If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary ...
ALGERNON SIDNEY If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary ...
ALGERNON SIDNEY Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue. [Fr., L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vic...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry...
QUENTIN CRISP Brevity in quotes is their virtue, verbosity their vice.
DAVID L. HATTON Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.
UNKNOWN Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue
MOLIERE When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
BARBARA AMIEL Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
ROGER VON OECH Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
ROGER VON OECH Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
FRANCIS BACON Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
FRANCIS BACON, SR. Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
FRANCIS BACON SR. Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
VAUVENARGUES, MARQUIS DE Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
LYMAN ABBOTT I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIERE Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
BARRY GOLDWATER Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Learning patience may be a virtue but to live faith is a gratitude of substance that proves your exi...
JASMINA SIDEROVSKI Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosp...
FRANCIS BACON Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosp...
SIR FRANCIS BACON There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue in his outward parts. -The Merchant of V...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtu...
BARRY GOLDWATER Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virt...
BARRY GOLDWATER I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
MOLIERE To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
HORACE For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind...
ERWIN SCHRODINGER Change in a trice. The lilies and languors of virtue. For the raptures and roses of vice;
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