But that woman is an encyclopedia! Of all vices, ancient and modern, and terribly interesting to leaf through!
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Jean Lorrain
A strange girl, all phosphorous and cantharides, burning with every desire! And burning with every vice!
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Jean Lorrain
The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered..it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are, indeed, let loose,...
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G.k. Chesterton
To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.
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Benjamin Franklin
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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Alexander Pope
More Quotes By La Rochefoucauld
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.
We always love those who admire us and we do not always love those whom we admire.
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.
