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The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.
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Ignominy thirsts for respect.
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Truly, this vice is never to be compared with any other vice because it surpasses the enormity of all vices ... It defiles everything, stains everything, pollutes everything. And as for itself, it permits nothing pure, nothing clean, nothing other than filth ...
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There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
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One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.
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But what will not ambition and revenge
Descend to?
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Avarice cripples virtue and lies in ambush for honesty. My
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Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.
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A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.
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Ambition ... the original of vices;
Mother of hypocrisy, parent of envy, engineer of deceit
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Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.
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of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
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That's not what I'm asking. I'm asking, what's your vice and what brand of trouble does it lead to?
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Plunder, ravage and kill; the secret works of the repugnant. Since the fall of man and brother killing brother, evil has owned the night.
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Deceit with sternness, ignorance with pride,
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his total refusal to be tempted by the prostitute
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To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.
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Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude.
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
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Vices of the time; vices of the man.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.
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Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.
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Hatred is a prolific vice; envy, a barren vice.
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Indiscretion and wickedness, be it known, are first cousins.
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Thieves, Heretics, and Whores
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Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.
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The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues.
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Many farcical, illogical, incomprehensible transactions are subsumed by the mania of lust.
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But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity
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The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it!
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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
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All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.
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Be virtuous in thought and in deed. God has planted in you, for a purpose, a divine urge which may be easily subverted to evil and destructive ends.
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Virtue humanizes and spiritualizes what is part animal in us. Vice brutalizes what is human and spiritual in us.
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Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice .
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There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.
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There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.
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transgressions one
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The nurse of infidelity is sensuality.
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Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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We pay for vice by the knowledge that we are wicked; we pay for pleasure when we find out too late that we are nothing.
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Vengence, betrayal, and love they all are synonyms for the same word: fake.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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For trash and toys, And grief-engend'ring joys, What torment seems too sharp for flesh and blood; What bitter pills, Compos'd of real ills, Men swallow down to purchase one false good!
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There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.
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14. Sensuality Sensuality
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The sin
That neither God nor man can well forgive.
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Unrighteousness. Ah! how ineptly cometh the word "virtue" out of their mouth! And when they say: "I am just," it always soundeth like: "I am just - revenged!
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Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.
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There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.
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The fascination of the abomination.
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It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.
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The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience.
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There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they have been accused, achieving their vengeance and their own destruction through making the nightmare real.
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The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people.
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Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.
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The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.
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To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.
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Holiness and hypocrisy strolled down the dirty streets hand in hand like a sick twisted love affair.
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Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.
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Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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BLASPHEMOUS REVERENCE. Acting on the knowledge that the most efficacious form or devotion to the Divine Wow is tinctured with playful or mischievous behavior that prevents the buildup of fanaticism.
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lust, greed, desire, and supremacy;
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All motives can be explained under the letter L: lust, lucre, loathing and love. They'll tell you the most dangerous is loathing but don't you believe it, boy; the most dangerous is love.
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit
or a mask.
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Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.
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Velleity, which describes a mild desire, a wish or urge too slight to lead to action.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
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Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.
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There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.
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2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.
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In the name of justice the most savage and revolting acts are perpetrated.
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The vague torment of ... ambition.
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Hypocrisy is a sort of homage that vice pays to virtue.
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The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.
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Deception to a noble end, though regrettable, was sometimes necessary for a greater good. Lying for selfish reasons was the fertile dirt of immorality, from which sprouted the tendrils of evil.
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Lust, anger, attachment, greed, over pride be,
Jealousy, selfishness, injustice, cruelty, ego truly;
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While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.
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Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.
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Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions.
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Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.
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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
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Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.
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Where does discretion end, and avarice begin?
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In a restless heart the seed of betrayal lay.
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Fornication is the murderer of champions and of people who have success, power, wisdom and anointing.
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People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive.
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Jesus Creeping God! Is there a priest in this tavern? I want to confess! I'm a fucking sinner! Venal, mortal, carnal, major, minor - however you want to call it, Lord ... I'm guilty.
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What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.
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Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. "Corruption" is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose.
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Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
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Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.
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To be greatly and effectively wicked a man needs some virtue. What
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For this was unpermissible, foolish, dangerous, and he meant to stop it in the bud. What