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Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.


Hosea Ballou

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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 itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
QUINTILIAN Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue
QUINTILIAN Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.
GEORGE CHAPMAN It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice
JOSEPH JOUBERT Ambition is not a vice of little people.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Vigilance is the virtue of vice.
C. J. WEBER It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Authority, though it err like others, hath yet a kind of medicine in itself, that skins the vice off...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Virtue practiced to be seen is not real virtue; vice which fears to be seen is real vice
CHINESE PROVERBS Patience is a virtue not a vice.
JAACHYNMA N.E. AGU The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
BERGEN EVANS I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also t...
BARRY M. GOLDWATER I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also t...
BARRY GOLDWATER I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me also remind you t...
BARRY M. GOLDWATER I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also t...
BARRY GOLDWATER Let me remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me also remind you th...
BARRY GOLDWATER I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also t...
BARRY M. GOLDWATER I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... Often, it is evil that preaches, “Forgiveness is a great virtue”, so that it can perpetuate itse...
DR HITESH C SHETH An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda We ought to see far enoug...
MICHAEL KORDA Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtu...
LAWRENCE G. LOVASIK Brevity in quotes is their virtue, verbosity their vice.
DAVID L. HATTON The vice among hypocrites is their virtue
DR.MOHAMMED FAIG ABAD ALRAZAK 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 I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Virtue is choked with foul ambition.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 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 His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING The evil in the world comes almost always from ignorance, and goodwill can cause as much damage as i...
ALBERT CAMUS Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD 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 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 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 Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES 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 Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
BARUCH SPINOZA Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself
BARUCH SPINOZA Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.
BARUCH SPINOZA Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the p...
SAMUEL BECKETT That vice pays homage to virtue is notorious; we call it hypocrisy
SAMUEL BUTLER The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE 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 A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
EDITH WHARTON Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.
ADAM GRANT A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
BARBARA AMIEL Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.
UNKNOWN Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue. [Fr., L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vic...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much less if it be ...
JOHN DONNE Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue
MOLIERE For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind...
ERWIN SCHRODINGER Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT 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 Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
LYMAN ABBOTT Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice
ALEXANDER POPE It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
HORACE Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
ALEXANDER POPE Vice leaves, like an ulcer in the flesh, a repentance in the soul which is always scratching itself ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
VICTOR HUGO You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocri...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocris...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialis...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialis...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortu...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
LYMAN ABBOTT Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
LYMAN ABBOTT There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religi...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Change in a trice. The lilies and languors of virtue. For the raptures and roses of vice;
ALGERNON SWINBURNE Change in a trice. The lilies and languors of virtue. For the raptures and roses of vice;
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

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