In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.
– Marquis de Sade
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- To lie is always a necessity for women; above all when they choose to deceive, falsehood becomes vital to them. – Marquis de Sade
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- Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite. – Marquis de Sade
- If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be. – Marquis de Sade
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- You can measure the true strength of a man by how well he controls others, but you measure his true power by how well he controls himself – Amari Soul
- To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon. – Idries Shah
- The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. – William Makepeace Thackeray
- We must be undone in order to do ourselves: we must be part of a larger social fabric of existence in order to create who we are. – Judith Butler
- The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order. – Henry Miller
- Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance. – Isaac Watts
- Deception and self-deception are intimately intertwined. We fool ourselves in order to fool others, and we fool others in order to fool ourselves. – Clancy Martin
- We must forget in order to remain present, forget in order not to die, forget in order to remain faithful. – Marc Aug
- Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair. – Honor de Balzac
- Greed is the seed of corruptionas much as virtue is the seed of justice.Wisdom is the seed of successas much as vice is the seed of destruction. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue. – Chris Matakas
- Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. – Lyman Abbott
- Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice. – Raheel Farooq
- Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant’s truce between virtue and vice. – Henry David Thoreau
- Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue. – Matthew Lewis
- Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. – Adam Smith
- To measure the man, measure his heart. – Malcolm Forbes
- The vice president (Nixon) seems like a man who is acting like a nice man rather than being one. – Ann Whitman
- The first thing you need to know in order to properly measure your time is that you must not delay. – Sunday Adelaja
- We must dare to be true to ourselves -“ to see ourselves as we really are. – Annika Sorensen
- Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue – perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one. – Milan Kundera
- Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither. – Alan Cohen
- Power does not justify sin. Power is not virtue. Virtue is that which lasts inspite of power – Sweety Shinde
- Virtue of prayer, virtue of patience. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence. – Adam Smith
- Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself. – Baruch Spinoza
- virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue. – Plato